Mark Reizen

The history of the gypsy Aleko who couldn't forgive the betrayal of his wife.

From Chaliapin to Reizen

Young Soviet farm workers are treated to a weekend in Moscow visiting the Bolshoi theater, in gratitude for which they invite the artists who've befriended them to visit their farm and be entertained by performances of their own.

Modest Mussorgsky's final opera, left unfinished at the time of this death in March of 1881.