An opera in a prologue and four acts
Libretto by Bielsky after Pushkin
Music by Rimsky-Korsakov
Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
Conducted by Vasili Nebolsin
Recording of a performance broadcast in the U.S.S.R.: made available by courtesy of Sovetskoe Radio
Prologue: A cottage kitchen on a winter evening
Act I: The Tsar's castle in Tmutarakamen, by the sea