A 30-page short story is turned into a three-hour opera.
40. The Queen of Spades / Pique Dame (Пиковая дама) (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Category: Russian composers
18. Sadko (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
The one with the Song of the Indian Merchant.
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