Works
He wrote a large number of operas with Russian librettos, often within Russian national settings, some of which were written by Yakov Knyazhnin. The most successful of them was Sbitenshchik (Сбитеньщик — Sbiten Vendor), comic opera in 3 acts, written to the libretto by Yakov Knyazhnin. It was a remake of Molière's L'école des femmes. The opera was staged 1783 or 1784 in St Petersburg, at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, and was played until 1853;
He was also credited for several famous comic operas of that time probably by mistake, because some of them, were also atrributed to other composers like Ivan Kerzelli and Vasily Pashkevich):
- Lyubovnik - koldun (Любовник-колдун — The Lover-Magician, one-act opera, libretto by Nikolai Nikolev, 1772 Moscow), that was also attributed to Ivan Kerzelli;
- Gorbatye (Горбатые — The Hunchbacked People, 1779 St Petersburg);
- Torzhestvo dobrodeteli nad krasotoy (Торжество добродетели над красотой — Celebration of Virtues Above the Beauty 1780, St Petersburg);
- Kuznets (Кузнец — The Blacksmith, 1780 St Petersburg);
- Muzhya-zhenikhi svoikh zhon (Мужья-женихи своих жён — The Husbands-bride-grooms of their Wives, 1784 St Petersburg),
- Sbitenshchik (Сбитеньщик — Sbiten Vendor), comic opera in 3 acts, libretto: Yakov Knyazhnin after Molière, 1783 or 1784, St Petersburg, Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, ;
- The Fisherman and Spirit (Рыбак и Дух — The Fisherman and Spirit, 1787);
- Milovzor and Prelesta (Миловзор и Прелеста, 1787);
- Dobrodetelny Volshebnik (Добродетельный волшебник — Virtuous Vizard), dramatic opera in 5 acts, libretto: Yakov Knyazhnin, Moscow, 1787;
- Gipsy (Цыган, 1788);
- Kak pozhivyosh, tak i proslyvyosh (Как поживёшь, так и прослывёшь — As you live you will be judged, libretto by Mikhail Matinsky, 1792 St. Petersburg) — revision of Saint-Petersburg's Trade Stalls that was also attributed to Vasily Pashkevich;
- Vinetta, ili Taras v Ulye (Винетта, или Тарас в улье — Vinetta, or Taras in a Beehive), comic opera in 2 acts, libretto: K. Damsky, 1799, St Petersburg;
- Skupoyr (Скупой — The Miser), libretto by Yakov Knyazhnin after Molière, 1782?, 1811 St Petersburg & Moscow that was also attributed to Vasily Pashkevich;
- Pritvirno sumashedshaya (Притворно сумасшедшая — Hypocritically Mad Woman'), etc.
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