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The Slippers

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(Cherevichky)
Tchaikovsky's four-act comic-fantastic opera of 1885, with a libretto by YAKOV POLONSKY based on the same Gogol short story which
Rimsky-Korsakov used ten years later for his opera, Christmas Eve.
(sung in Russian)
The proud Oxana taunts her young blacksmith lover by setting him the task of bringing her a pair of slippers just like the Tsarina's in St Petersburg.
Count Potemkin, chief minister to Catherine the Great
ALEXANDER POLYAKOV (baritone)
MOSCOW RADIO CHORUS AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAl
VLADIMIR FEDOSEYEV. Records
(Rimsky-Korsakov 'Christmas Eve on Thursday at 2.30pm)

Contributors

Unknown:
Yakov Polonsky
Baritone:
Alexander Polyakov
Unknown:
Vladimir Fedoseyev.
Solokha, Vakula's mother, a Witch:
Lyudmila Simonova
Devil:
Oleg Klenov (baritone)
Chub, an old Cossack:
Alexey Krivchenya (bass)
Panas, his friend:
Ivan Kartavenko (tenor)
Oxana, Chub's daughter:
Nina Fomina (soprano)
Vakula, a blacksmith:
Konstantin Lisovsky (tenor)
Mayor:
Gennady Troitsky (bass)
Village schoolmaster:
Vladimir Makhov (tenor)
Woodsprite:
Ivan Budrin (baritone)
Old Zaporogian Cossack:
V. Godunov(bass)
Gentleman-in-waiting at the Imperial Court:
V Rybin (tenor)
Master of Ceremonies at the Imperial Court:
Viktor Seuvanov (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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