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  Mazeppa

  Mazeppa, properly Mazepa (Russian: Мазепа), is an opera in 3 acts (6 scenes) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Victor Burenin and is based on Pushkin's poem Poltava. Mazeppa is a blood-thirsty tale of crazy love, abduction, political persecution, execution, and vengeful...
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  Manfred Symphony

  The Manfred Symphony in B minor, Op. 58 is a programmatic symphony composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky between May and September 1885. It is based on the poem Manfred written by Lord Byron in 1817. It is the only one of Tchaikovsky's symphonies he completed which is not numbered (the Symphony in E...
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  Romeo and Juliet

  Romeo and Juliet is a musical work by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, subtitled Overture-Fantasy, based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. Like other composers such as Berlioz and Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky was deeply inspired by Shakespeare, and he also wrote works on The Tempest and Hamlet. Romeo and...
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  Vakula the Smith

  Vakula the Smith (Russian: Кузнец Вакула, Kuznets Vakula, Smith Vakula), is an opera in 3 acts, 8 scenes by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, his Opus 14. The libretto was written by Yakov Polonsky, and is based on Nikolai Gogol's story Christmas Eve (Russian: Ночь перед Рождеством, Noch péred Rozhdestvóm)....
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  Cherevichki

  Cherevichki (Russian: Черевички, Cherevichki, Čerevički, The Slippers) [alternative renderings are The Little Shoes, The Tsarina's Slippers, Les caprices d'Oxane, and Gli stivaletti] is a comic-fantastic opera in 4 acts, 8 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was composed in 1885 in Maidanovo,...
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  Undina

  Undina (sometimes Undine or Ondine) (Russian: Ундина) is an opera in 3 acts by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. The work was composed in 1869. The libretto was written by Vladimir Sollogub, and is based on Vasily Zhukovsky's translation of Friedrich de la Motte-Fouqué's Ondine. The opera was composed during the...
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  The Sleeping Beauty

  The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая Красавица, Spyashchaya Krasavitsa) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts, first performed in 1890. The music was by Pyotr Tchaikovsky (his Opus 66). The score was completed in 1889, and is the second of his three ballets. The original scenario was conceived...
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  Eugene Onegin

  Eugene Onegin, Op. 24, (Russian: Евгений Онегин, Yevgény Onégin) is an opera ("lyrical scenes") in 3 acts (7 scenes), by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto was written by Konstantin Shilovsky and the composer and his brother Modest, and is based on the novel in verse by Alexander Pushkin....
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  Swan Lake

  Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое Озеро, Lebedinoye Ozero) is a ballet, op. 20, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed 1875–1876. The scenario, initially in four acts, by Vladimir Begichev and Vasiliy Geltser was fashioned from Russian folk tales as well as an ancient German legend. It tells the story...

• The Tempest

  The Tempest (Burya), Symphonic Fantasia after Shakespeare, Op. 18 is a symphonic poem in F minor by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed in 1873. It was premiered in December 1873, conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein. It is based on the play The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Similar in structure to...