A Life for the Tsar. опера Жизнь за царя (Иван Сусанин)

A Life for the Tsar An Opera in tour Acts Music by Mikhail Glinka from the Bolshoi theatre Moscow Text by baron G. F. Rosen In a version by Evgeny Levashov Producer Nicolai Kuznetsov Designer Valery Levental Ivan Susanin, a peasant Evgeny Nesterenko Antonida, Susanin s daughter Marina Mescheriakova history Historians rarely mention that Glinka s masterpiece was inspired by a previous opera, Ivan Susanin, by the Russianized Italian composer Catterino Cavos, staged