The Canterville Ghost (Knaifel opera)

The Canterville Ghost (also The Ghost of Canterville, Russian: Кентервильское привидение, romanized: Kentervíl’skoye prividénie) is an opera by the Russian composer Alexander Knaifel in three acts for 18 singers and chamber orchestra, also in an abridged version for two soloists and chamber orchestra.

[1] The opera was composed in 1965–66 to the libretto by Tatiana Kramarova after the 1887 short story "The Canterville Ghost" by Oscar Wilde.

[citation needed] Also: Romantic Scenes from the Opera – in seven scenes with prologue for basso profondo and light soprano with chamber orchestra (shorter version).

Shorter version: The score is published by Sovetsky Kompozitor, Leningrad 1977.

[2] It was performed on March 3 and 4, 1980, in London by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.