The Encyclopedia of Classic Opera · Thursday, July 2, 2026
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Operas in Russian

44 works in the OperaPedia catalogue with their libretti in Russian.

Russian opera draws on a deep folk-music inheritance and on the literary heritage of Pushkin, Gogol, and Tolstoy. From Glinka through Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and into the twentieth century with Prokofiev and Shostakovich, Russian opera has cultivated a distinctive harmonic vocabulary and orchestral colour.