Man of Music
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.
Release date
06/06/1952
Votes
7
Popularity
2.3
Boris Smirnov
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Lev Durasov
Alexander Pushkin
Vladimir Savelyev
Marshal Karl Ivanovich
Lyubov Orlova
Ludmilla Ivanovna Glinka
Yuri Lyubimov
Alexander Dargomishky
Nikolay Korshunov
Ivanov, tenor
Sergei Kurilov
Karl Brullov
Mikhail Nazvanov
Czar Nikolai I
Konstantin Nassonov
Vasili Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Berta Vinogradova
Giuditta Pasta
Sviatoslav Richter
Franz Liszt
Georgiy Vitsin
Nikolai V. Gogol
Irina Likso
The Czarina
Igor Litovkin
A. S. Griboyedov
Faina Shevchenko
Mme. Ivanovich
Aleksandr Sashin-Nikolsky
Dmitri Petrov
Yelena Glebova
Singer
Andrei Popov
Pavel Pavlenko
Vakhtang Tumanov
Osip Petrov
Sergei Vecheslov
Vladimir Odoevskiy
Pyotr Veremenko
Yelena Izmailova
Olga Lanskaya
Lyudmila Sokolova
Natalie Goncharova
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