SADKO

Composer: NRKOLAR RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Book by the composer First performance: Private Opera House, Moscow, January 6, 1898 7 acts. Sadko is a travelling musician who plays upon the gusle. Prince Volkhova, daughter of the Ocean King, is so pleased with him that Sadko is enabled to rise quickly in wealth and position, and shortly he builds a dazzling estate of white stone. At sea one day the water becomes so perturbed that Sadko finally descends to the bottom to play for the Ocean King. The King and his court begin to dance, the whole affair becoming succe ful to a fault for the Ocean King falls dead from exhaustion. When peace and quiet have finally settled, Sadko, with the Prince , rise to the surface, and spend a happy life in Sadko’s white palace.