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The Miserly Knight

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father of lying. The Baron challenges Albert to a duel, and Albert accepts. The duke rebukes the father, and banishes the son from his court. However, stressed by this confrontation, the baron collapses fatally. As the Baron dies, his last request is not for his son, but the keys to his chests of gold.
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Albert has appealed to the Duke for help in obtaining money from his father. Albert hides, as the Duke summons the Baron to a meeting. The Duke asks the Baron to support his son, but the Baron accuses Albert of wanting to steal from him. Albert then angrily reveals his presence and accuses his own
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Albert is a young knight who devotes himself to jousting and courtly pleasures, but is now deeply in debt as a result. His father, a very wealthy but equally frugal baron, refuses to support his son's lifestyle. Albert's ability to maneuver in society is now limited, and he tries to obtain a loan
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The Baron descends to his cellars, exultant now because he has accumulated enough gold to fill his sixth and final storage chest, and gloats before them. However, he realizes that if he died soon, his son Albert could then claim the fortune and fritter it away on his sensual pleasures.
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from outside his family. A money-lender denies Albert a loan, but instead offers Albert poison, to allow Albert to murder his father. Albert is appalled at such a suggestion. He resolves then to go to the Duke to make his appeal.
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Productions of the opera have been rare. In addition, the characterization of the moneylender, who is identified in the story as being Jewish, has been criticized as anti-Semitic.
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Chandos 10264: Mikhail Guzhov, Vsevolod Grivnov, Andrei Baturkin, Borislav Molchanov, Vitaly Efanov; Russian State Symphony Orchestra; Valeri Polyansky, conductor
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in mind for the role of the Baron, however, Chaliapin withdrew from the production over artistic differences.
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The first performance was on 24 January (11 January OS) 1906 at the
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Steve Griffiths, Review of vocal scores of Rachmaninoff's
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The composer and members of the premiere cast in 1906
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Index

Opera
Sergei Rachmaninoff

Russian
Alexander Pushkin
Bolshoi Theatre
Russian
opera
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Alexander Pushkin
Feodor Chaliapin
Bolshoi Theatre
Francesca da Rimini
Vasiliy Shkafer
Sergei Rachmaninoff
baritone
Georges Baklanoff
tenor
Anton Bonachich
bass
Stepan Barsukov
Ivan Gryzunov
Melodiya Records
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
LPs
Isle of the Dead
Deutsche Grammophon
Vladimir Chernov
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi

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