Tale of Tsar Saltan Petrov Shumilova Smolenskaya Nebolsin 1959 Rimsky-Korsakov

Tale of Tsar Saltan Vasily Nebolsin Bolshoi 1959 RARE Tsar Saltan - Ivan Petrov Tsarina Militrissa - Eugenia Smolenskaya Serene Spinstress - Larissa Nikitina Royal Bakeress - Elisabeta Shumilova Barbaricha - Eugenia Verbitskaya Tsarevich Gvidon - Vladimir Ivanovsky Princess Swanhilda - Galina Oleinichenko Old man - P. Chekin Skomoroch - Mark Reshetin First sailor - V. Kalazhusky Second sailor - Alexei Bolshakov Third sailor - Andrei Geleva Synopsis: Prologue. On a wintry evening three sisters are sitting at spinning wheels. As Tsar Saltan overhears from outside the door, the oldest sister boasts that, if she were Tsaritsa, she would prepare a sumptuous feast; the middle sister would weave a grand linen; the youngest promises to bear a bogatyr as son for the Tsar. Saltan enters, chooses the third sister to be his bride, and takes her away. The old woman Babarikha devises a revenge for the two jealous older sisters: when the Tsar is away at war, a message will be sent t