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'''The Coachmen at the Relay Station''' (Rus: Ямщики на подставе), also referred to as '''“Coachmen on a stand, or an accidental game,”''' is a one-act [[comic opera]] in 1787 by [[Yevstigney Fomin|Evstigney Fomin]] with the libretto authored by [[Nikolay Lvov|N.A. Lvov]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Taruskin |first=Richard |url=http://archive.org/details/definingrussiamu0000taru |title=Defining Russia musically : historical and hermeneutical essays |date=1997 |publisher=Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-691-01156-1}}</ref> The work is hallmarked by Fomin's usage of the Russian folk song tradition known as the [[Long song|"drawn out song."]]<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Frolova-Walker |first=Marina |url=http://archive.org/details/russianmusicnati0000frol |title=Russian music and nationalism ; from Glinka to Stalin |date=2007 |publisher=New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-300-11273-3}}</ref> It was premiered that same year on January 2 (November 8), 1787, although its location of premiere is dubious, performances having taken place in both [[Tambov]] and St. Petersburg that year.
== Compositional History ==
== Cast ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Character
!Voice Type
!Performer
|-
|Timofey Burakov
|tenor
|Mr. Kamushkin
|-
|Abram, Timofey's father
|bass
|Anton Krutitsky
|-
|Fadeevna, Timofey's wife
|soprano
|Ms. Bystreeva
|-
|Yanka, young coachman
|bass
|Yakov Vorobyov
|-
|Vakhrush
|tenor
|Mr. Suslov
|-
|Courier
|bass
|Mr. Volkov
|-
|Officer on stand
|no singing
|Vasily Sharapov
|-
|Four coachmen
|no singing
|
|-
|Bobyl, the coachman
|no singing
|Mr. Rakhmanov
|-
|Two messengers
|no singing
|Mr. Zolin, Mr. Savinov
|-
|Two dragons
|no singing
|
|-
| colspan="3" |Coachmen's choir
|}
== References ==
[[Category:Russian opera]]
<references />
== See also ==
* [[Russian opera]]
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'''The Coachmen at the Relay Station''' (Rus: Ямщики на подставе), also referred to as '''“Coachmen on a stand, or an accidental game,”''' is a one-act [[comic opera]] in 1787 by [[Yevstigney Fomin|Evstigney Fomin]] with the libretto authored by [[Nikolay Lvov|N.A. Lvov]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Taruskin |first=Richard |url=http://archive.org/details/definingrussiamu0000taru |title=Defining Russia musically : historical and hermeneutical essays |date=1997 |publisher=Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-691-01156-1}}</ref> The work is hallmarked by Fomin's usage of the Russian folk song tradition known as the [[Long song|"drawn out song."]]<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Frolova-Walker |first=Marina |url=http://archive.org/details/russianmusicnati0000frol |title=Russian music and nationalism ; from Glinka to Stalin |date=2007 |publisher=New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-300-11273-3}}</ref> It was premiered that same year on January 2 (November 8), 1787, although its location of premiere is dubious, performances having taken place in both [[Tambov]] and St. Petersburg that year.
== Compositional History ==
== Cast ==
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Character
!Voice Type
!Performer
|-
|Timofey Burakov
|tenor
|Mr. Kamushkin
|-
|Abram, Timofey's father
|bass
|Anton Krutitsky
|-
|Fadeevna, Timofey's wife
|soprano
|Ms. Bystreeva
|-
|Yanka, young coachman
|bass
|Yakov Vorobyov
|-
|Vakhrush
|tenor
|Mr. Suslov
|-
|Courier
|bass
|Mr. Volkov
|-
|Officer on stand
|no singing
|Vasily Sharapov
|-
|Four coachmen
|no singing
|
|-
|Bobyl, the coachman
|no singing
|Mr. Rakhmanov
|-
|Two messengers
|no singing
|Mr. Zolin, Mr. Savinov
|-
|Two dragons
|no singing
|
|-
| colspan="3" |Coachmen's choir
|}
== References ==
[[Category:Russian opera]]
<references />
== See also ==
* [[Russian opera]]
{{Classical-composition-stub}}
Okumaya devam et...