Ole from the Northland, Op.53 (Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 acts
Composition Year	1915
Genre Categories	Operas; Theatrical Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Russian language

Sheet Music

Preliminaries, Act I
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Act II
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Act III
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Act IV
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Publisher. Info.	Moscow: P. Jurgenson, n.d.[1915]. Plates 38351-38373.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
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Work Title	Ole from the Northland
Alternative. Title	Оле из Нордланда (Ole iz Nordlanda) ; Ole from Nordland ; Ole of Nordland
Composer	Ippolitov-Ivanov, Mikhail
Opus/Catalogue NumberOp./Cat. No.	Op.53
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IMI 20
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	4 acts, 24 numbers (including entr'acte to Act IV) Act I 1. Scene and duet (Gerda and Marta) 2. Scene (Ole, Gerda, and Marta) 3. Scene and duet (Ole, Gerda, later Marta and chorus) 4. Scene (Gerda and chorus) Act II 5. Scene (Gerda, Johan, servants, musicians, etc. 6. Scene and arioso of Johan 7. Scene (Gerda, Ole, Johan, people, and fishermen) 8. Song of the fishermen 9. Dances with chorus 10. Little song of Ole 11. Scene of the merchant Verses of Ole with chorus 12. Scene of the merchant and chorus 13. Scene (Ole, Johan, and Gerda) 14. Concluding scene (Johan) Act III 15. Scene and chorus of girlfriends 16. Scene and ballad of Marta Ballad of Marta 17. Dances and chrous of girlfriends 18. Scene and chorus 19. Scene and arioso of Ole 20. Concluding scene and Duet of Ole and Gerda Act IV Entr'acte 21. Scene of the night watchmen 22. Scene and Arioso of Johan 23. Concluding scene and Duet
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp.	1915
First Performance.	1916-11-21 in Moscow, Bolshoy Theatre
First Publication.	1915
Librettist	Composer, after M. Jersen
Language	Russian
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voices, chorus, orchestra
External Links	Operone.de

Anyone have any idea who "M. Jersen" may have been? (also, is the title on the cover in Russian? It doesn't seem to say "... from the North Country" - maybe in early 20th-century Russian... - oh- Ole from Nordlanda...) - Schissel

In Russian -landia or -land (-ландия, -ланд) is used to make names of foreign Europian countries (e.g. in children's language or fairy tales). So although Nordland is not a Russian word, it can be easily understood by any Ruassian as North Country.
M. Jersen was the secretary of Swedish-Nogwegian Consulate in St. Petersburg. Died from tuberculosis. He was a friend of Ippolitov-Ivanov's father. The original piece used for libretto was an unpublished play left at their house, which was translated by composer's sister into Russian, when he was only a child (at least it is stated so here: Музыкальное образование в контексте культуры).

In 1928, revived at the Bolshoi Theater by its director Vladimir Leonardovich (Knipper) Nardov (1876–1942) (as Russian Wikipedia (Nardov's article) puts it, its first appearance on the Soviet (post-1917) stage.)