Tsar's Bride - Lyubasha's aria - (Rimsky-Korsakov)

Lyubasha is asked by Malyuta to sing for the company of Ivan the Terrible's bodyguards - the oprichniks - of which he is a member. Knowing that she has lost the affection of Grigory, her beloved, (also an oprichnik), she sings a song of grief and death.

I've always like the irony of the sensitive response of the oprichniks, the bloody and ruthless group of select guards that surrounded Ivan.

Lyubasha - Natalya Rudnaya (voice: Larissa Avdeyeva)


Lyubasha is played by Natalya Rudnaya; Larisa Avdeyeva sings the part.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• tsar's
• bride;
• oprichniks;
• lyubasha;
• rimsky-korsakov
• opera;
• grigory
• gryaznoy;
• russian
• larissa
• avdeyeva;
• natalya
• rudnaya

[jkircher314]

This is a Soviet film called The Tsar's Bride, made around the early 60s.

[Mkombozi]

Tsar's Bride film 1964 and available on DVD

[gekaopera]

нечего сказать....великолепно!!!

[kvintol1]

Как раньше пели!

[shelaghmckenna]

Such a magnificent voice! Thank you very much.

[pupulique]

Great record! I've been looking for a film on this opera. Do you know the title of it? And what the date of this recording?

[ilnytska]

Bravo!!!