The Composer Glinka
The Composer Glinka Russian Kompozitor Glinka, alternative title Man of Music is a 1952 Soviet film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov.
After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future coauthor shocked Glinka Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto False words were written by Rosen.When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkins subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters. ........
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