(MUSORGSKY): Sorochinskaya Yarmarka* СοΡοЧИНсқаЯ ЯΡΜаΡҚа (The Fair of Sorochintsy)

(MUSORGSKY): Sorochinskaya Yarmarka* СοΡοЧИНсқаЯ ЯΡΜаΡҚа (The Fair of Sorochintsy) 26 October. Petrograd Text by the composer (founded on an episode from Gogol’s Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka). Three acts. Musorgsky had begun to work at this opera as early as 1875; he left it unfinished, without the greater part of the last act and without orchestration. Several attempts were made to restore the opera. Prior to 1917, the work had been heard semi-publicly at St. Petersburg, Comedia Theatre 30…