The Stone Guest (Dargomyzhsky)

The United States premiere of the opera was presented in 1986, by the Chamber Opera Theater of New York at the Marymount Manhattan Theater in New York City with Ron Gentry as Don Juan, Randolf Messing as Don Carlos, Sally Stevens as Donna Anna, and Vladimir Kin conducting.

It was written without arias and ensembles (not counting two small romances sung by Laura[5]) and it is entirely built on the "melodic recitative" of the human voice put to music.

Other Russians operas have also incorporated the same stylistic elements, including settings of the three remaining Little Tragedies of Pushkin.

These are Mozart and Salieri by Rimsky-Korsakov (1898); Feast in Time of Plague by Cesar Cui (1901); and The Miserly Knight by Sergei Rachmaninov (1904).

The modern Russian music critic Viktor Korshikov thus summed up: Audio Video Notes Further reading