Christmas Eve by Rimsky-Korsakov, 1948
An opera in four acts with music and libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Composed between 1894 and 1895, Rimsky-Korsakov based his opera on a short story, "Christmas Eve", from Nikolay Gogol's Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka. The story had been used as the basis for an opera at least three times previously, including for Tchaikovsky's Vakula the Smith (1874).
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Nikolai Golovanov conducting Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Vakula: Dmitri Tarkhov
Oxana: Natalya Shpiller
Tsarita: Lyudmila Ivanovna Legostayeva
Solokha: Nina Kulagina
Devil: Pavel Pontryagin
Golova: Sergei Migay
Chub: Sergei Krasovsky
Panas: Vsevolod Tyutyunnik
Patzjuk: Alexsei Korolev
Sacristan: Sergei Streltrosv
First Woman: K. Pavlova-Assyar
Second Woman: Anna Dolina
