Opera in one act
Music by Veniamin Fleishman (completed by Shostakovich) Libretto by THE COMPOSER, after the story by CHEKHOV (sung in Russian): record
USSR MINISTRY OF CULTURE
CHAMBER CHOIR (men's voices)
AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
The action takes a place in a small Russian provincial town at the end of the 19th century.