Le Coq d'or
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Opera: Work details
| Composer: |
Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov |
| Music title: |
Le Coq d'or (1909) |
| Librettist: |
Vladimir Nikolayevich Bel'sky |
| Work definition: |
Dramatized fable in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue |
| Title notes: |
Also known as 'The Golden Cockerel' |
| After: |
After the folk tale in verse 'The Tale of the Golden Cockerel' by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, based in turn on 'The House of the Weathercock' and 'Legend of the Arabian Astrologer' from 'The Alhambra' by Washington Irving |
| Language: |
Russian |
| World premiere: |
7 October 1909, Solodovnikov Theatre, Moscow |
| ROH premiere: |
5 November 1919, Beecham Opera Company |
| ROH company premiere: |
7 January 1954, Covent Garden Opera Company, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London |