"The Tsar's Bride" opera will be performed online by the Bolshoi theatre soloists on official YouTube account today. The video will be available in 24 hours.

The plot of drama “The Tsar’s Bride” by Lev Aleksandrovich Mei provoked interest in Rimski-Korsakov yet in his young days.It is proven that Rimski-Korsakov turned to “The Tsar’s Bride” in February 1898. The script was developed by the composer himself, while the libretto was written by his student Ilya Fyodorovich Tyumenev. “The Tsar’s Bride” was premiered on 22 October (3 November) 1899 by efforts of private theatre company of Savva Mamontov, those time having the name “Winter Private Opera’. The part of Marfa was played by Nadezhda Ivanovna Zabela-Vrubel, the decoration of the play was made by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel, and the conductor was Mikhail Mikhailovich Ippolitov-Ivanov.