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Opera Music Plot Synopsis
Rimsky Korsakov: Boyarinya Vera Sheloga
Vera, the wife of Ivan Sheloga, who is absent at the War, is singing
her child
to sleep. Nadezhda, her sister, learns that the child is not
Sheloga's, but the
mother refuses to divulge more than that one day, when on
her way to the
Pechersky Monastery, she had become faint, and had found herself,
on regaining
consciousness, in the tent of a stranger, who subsequently
visited her at her
home. Hardly has she finished her story when her husband returns.
When he puts
the question, ``Whose is that child?'' Nadezhda, to shield
her sister, proclaims
herself the mother.
(The child is Olga, the Maid of Pskov, her father is Ivan
the Terrible.)
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