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Moscow Private Opera

Russian opera company

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Mamontov

  • In Savva Mamontov

    In 1885 Mamontov founded the Moscow Private Opera, which initially produced operas by both Italian and Russian composers but quickly shifted focus to promote the work of Russia’s leading composers, among them Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky. With that extraordinary music, stage sets designed by Abramtsevo’s…

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