Alexey Verstovsky - Askold’s Grave / Askol’dova mogila (1835)

Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky (Алексéй Никола́евич Верстóвский) (March 1 [O.S. February 18] 1799 – November 17 [O.S. November 5] 1862) was a Russian composer, musical bureaucrat and rival of Mikhail Glinka. Work: Askold’s Grave / Askol’dova mogila / Аскольдова могила, opera in four acts, first performance 28 September 1835, Bolshoi, Moscow. Libretto: Mikhail Zagoskin Tatiana Panfilova Lidiya Kovaleva Galina Simkina Andrei Salnikov Lev Kuznetsov Yuri Markelov Boris Bezhko Igor Miroschnichenko Vladislav Verestnikov Raisa Kotova Vladimir Kudryashov Chorus: Academic Large Choir Orchestra: Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Yuri Nikonenko