he only CD issue of this opera available!
Mussorgsky wrote the Sorochintsi Fair as a comic opera, based on the story that Gogol (who was born in Sorochintsi) wrote about the village and its annual Fair, a fantastic tale full of bizarre personages and events, Russian comedy drenched in vodka.
The opera is the most “folkloristic” of Mussorgsky’s operas, in the line of the nationalistic movement of the famous “Group of Five” of which Mussorgsky was a prominent member.
All‐Russian forces make the performance of this opera irresistible, a real discovery!