Anyuta

Anyuta (Russian: Аню́та) is a one-act comic opera to a libretto by Mikhail Popov.

The collection of Popov's poems, translations and plays called Dosugi (Досуги – Leisure Hours) was published at the request of Empress Catherine II.

The music hasn't survived and its composer is not known, however it has sometimes been attributed to Vasily Pashkevich or even to Yevstigney Fomin although at that time he was just 11 years old.

The premiere took place at the Chinese Theatre, Tsarskoye Selo, on September 6 [OS August 26] 1772.

[clarification needed] It is a story about a girl called Anyuta, brought up in a peasants' household, who turned out to be of noble birth, eventually marrying her nobleman beloved, Victor, to the sound of wedding bells.