Which classical composter wrote 'The Snow Maiden' and 'The Golden Cockerel'?
The Golden Cockerel The Golden Cockerel The Golden Cockerel (, "Zolotoy petushok") is an opera in three acts, with short prologue and even shorter epilogue, composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Its libretto written by Vladimir Belsky derives from Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel". The opera was completed in 1907 and premiered in 1909 in Moscow, after the composer's death. Outside Russia it has often been performed in French as "Le coq d'or". Rimsky-Korsakov had considered his previous opera, "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya" (1907) to be his final artistic statement in the
The Golden Cockerel in danger from a neighbouring state, Shemakha, ruled by a beautiful Tsaritsa. He requests advice of the Astrologer, who supplies a magic Golden Cockerel to safeguard the Tsar's interests. When the little cockerel confirms that the Tsaritsa of Shemakha does harbor territorial ambitions, Dodon decides to preemptively strike Shemakha, sending his army to battle under the command of his two sons. However, his sons are both so inept that they manage to kill each other on the battlefield. Tsar Dodon then decides to lead the army himself, but further bloodshed is averted because the Golden Cockerel ensures that the old