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Opera Music Plot Synopsis
Rimsky Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Tsar Saltan overhears three sisters who are confiding to
each other their views
on the subject of happiness. The youngest, having declared
that she would wish
nothing better than to become the mother of a hero, is chosen
by Saltan for his
bride. While he is at the War the jealous sisters plot against
the young queen,
who with her little son is consigned to the waves in a barrel,
which drifts on
to an island. One day the Tsarevich, now a sturdy youth, saves
a swan from a
pike that is pursuing it. He is rewarded with magic powers
enabling him to build
a Wonder-City, over which he is chosen to reign, and the swan,
having resumed
her former estate of Princess, consents to share his throne.
Returning from the
Wars, Tsar Saltan hears of the famous island, and journeying
thither is reunited
with his queen.
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