In this pair of podcasts, Dramaturg Jonathan Dean discusses the great Russian writer Alexander Pushkin with Dacia Clay of the Classical Classroom Podcast. And here’s a list of (some) works by Pushkin (poems, plays, stories, novels, in the order he wrote them) that then inspired operas:
1820: Ruslan & Ludmila (Narrative Poem)
Made into Opera: Ruslan & Lyudmila (1842) by Mikhail Glinka
1821: Captive of the Caucasus (Narrative Poem)
Made into Opera: Prisoner of the Caucasus (1883) by César Cui
1824: The Gypsies (Narrative Poem)
Made into Opera: Carmen (1875) by Georges Bizet
Made into Opera: Aleko (1893) by Sergei Rachmaninov
Made into Opera: Zingari (1912) by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Made into other operas, too!
1825: Boris Godunov (Verse Drama)
Made into Opera: Boris Godunov (1872*) by Modest Mussorgsky
1826-32: Rusalka (Unfinished Verse Drama)
Made into Opera: Rusalka (1856) by Alexander Dargomyzhsky
1829: Poltava (Narrative Poem)
Made into Opera: Mazeppa (1884) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1830: Pushkin’s “Little Tragedies”
- The Stone Guest (Verse Drama)
Made into Opera: The Stone Guest (1872) by Alexander Dargomyzhsky - Mozart & Salieri (Verse Drama)
Made into Opera: Mozart & Salieri (1898) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Miserly Knight (Verse Drama)
Made into Opera: The Covetous Knight (1906) by Sergei Rachmaninov - A Feast in Time of Plague (Verse Drama)
Made into Opera: A Feast in Time of Plague (1901) by César Cui
1825–1832 (published 1833): Eugene Onegin (Novel-Length Narrative Poem)
Made into Opera: Eugene Onegin (1879) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1833: The Little House at Kolomna (Narrative Poem)
Made into Opera: Mavra (1922) by Igor Stravinsky
1834-37: The Moor of Peter the Great (Unfinished Novel)
Made into Opera: The Blackamoor of Peter the Great (1961) by Arthur Lourié
1834: The Queen of Spades (Short Story)
Made into Opera: Die Kartenschlägerin-Pique Dame (1864) by Franz von Suppé
Made into Opera: The Queen of Spades (1890) by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1831: Dubrovsky (Unfinished Historical Novel)
Made into Opera: Dubrovsky by Eduard Nápravnik (1895)
1831: The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Narrative Poem)
Made into Opera: The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1900) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1834: The Tale of the Golden Cockerel (Narrative Poem)
Made into Opera: The Golden Cockerel (1909) by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1836: The Captain’s Daughter (Novel)
Made into Opera: The Captains’ Daughter (1911) by César Cui
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