Opera Scotland

Sorochintsy Fair 1941Russian Opera and Ballet Company

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These Edinburgh performances, in the course of an extensive tour,of Sorochintsy Fair as completed by Tcherepnin, involved the Scottish premiere. The great Russian soprano Oda Slobodskaya was a hugely popular star over many years of living in London, and she and Fistoulari had both moved on by the time the production reached Glasgow a year later.

This very abbreviated cast list is as reviewed in The Scotsman. Many of the roles were double-cast for the tour. The production names, with the exception of Fistoulari, are from a programme for the 1942 Glasgow visit, in the Mitchell Library collection.