Was Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of the Ukraine, villain or patriot?
48. Мазепа (Mazeppa) (Tchaikovsky)
Category: Russian composers
40. The Queen of Spades / Pique Dame (Пиковая дама) (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
A 30-page short story is turned into a three-hour opera.
18. Sadko (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
The one with the Song of the Indian Merchant.
OPERA UNLEASHED! 