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Opera Music Plot Synopsis
Rimsky Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride
Martha, the daughter of the Novgorod merchant Sobakin, is
to marry the boyar
Likov; but Gryaznoi, one of Ivan the Terrible's bodyguard,
has sworn that she
shall be his, and obtains from Bomely, the Tsar's doctor,
a potion with which he
intends to destroy her memory. His discarded mistress Lyuba,
aided by Bomely,
substitutes another concoction that is to mar her beauty.
This Martha drinks.
Meantime, in accordance with a royal custom, Ivan the Terrible
has been
endeavoring unseen to select a bride. His choice falls upon
Martha. When she
hears from Gryaznoi that Likov, her betrothed, has been executed
for attempting
to poison her, she loses her reason. Lyuba, confessing to
her act, is stabbed by
Gryaznoi, who gives himself up to justice.
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