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Man of Music

The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.

Top Cast

  • Boris Smirnov

    Boris Smirnov

    Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

  • Lev Durasov

    Lev Durasov

    Alexander Pushkin

  • Vladimir Savelyev

    Vladimir Savelyev

    Marshal Karl Ivanovich

  • Lyubov Orlova

    Lyubov Orlova

    Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka

  • Yuri Lyubimov

    Yuri Lyubimov

    Alexander Dargomishky

  • Nikolay Korshunov

    Nikolay Korshunov

    Ivanov, tenor

  • Sergei Kurilov

    Sergei Kurilov

    Karl Brullov

  • Mikhail Nazvanov

    Mikhail Nazvanov

    Czar Nikolai I

  • Konstantin Nassonov

    Konstantin Nassonov

    Vasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky

Overview

The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.

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