Mlada (Russian: Млада, the name of a main character) was a project originally envisioned as a ballet to be composed by Alexander Serov and choreographed by Marius Petipa. The project was later revised in 1872 as an opera-ballet in four acts, with the composition of the score to be divided between César Cui, Léon Minkus, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and Aleksandr Borodin. The libretto was written by Viktor Krylov. The project was ne...
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Mlada (Russian: Млада, the name of a main character) was a project originally envisioned as a ballet to be composed by Alexander Serov and choreographed by Marius Petipa. The project was later revised in 1872 as an opera-ballet in four acts, with the composition of the score to be divided between César Cui, Léon Minkus, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, and Aleksandr Borodin. The libretto was written by Viktor Krylov. The project was never completed, and no performing edition is in use. An exhaustive study of this opera has been made by German musicologist Albrecht Gaub (see bibliography below) and provides information for this article.
Conception
The scenario was conceived in 1870 by Stepan Alexandrovich Gedeonov (1815-1878), who was the Director of the Imperial Theatres at the time. It was originally to be a ballet, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Alexander Serov, who died in 1871 before composing anything for the work.
Gedeonov revised his conception as an...
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