Talk:A Life for the Tsar

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Was Ivan Susanin really the "orginal name" of this opera? I had always heard that Ivan Susanin was just the name given to it during the Soviet period (when a regime that began by killing the Tsar could hardly approve of an opera whose title supported the opposite course of action) 18.100.0.86 (talk) 19:21, 21 August 2008 (UTC).[reply]

From Richard Taruskin's article on the opera at Grove Music Online: [Like its predicessor by Catterino Cavos,] "Glinka’s opera, too, was originally to have been called Ivan Susanin: its eventual title was conferred upon it by Tsar Nikolay I in return for the dedication." If I recall correctly, Victor Borge, too, explains the title as well in his book on opera (My Favorite Intermissions). Mademoiselle Fifi (talk) 11:36, 22 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]