Prisoner of the Caucasus (Cui, César)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 acts (overture + 24 numbers)
Composition Year 1857-58; 1881-82; 1885
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; Librettos; Writings; Russian language; French language; For piano 4 hands (arr); Scores featuring the piano (arr); Scores featuring the piano 4 hands (arr); For 2 players (arr); For piano (arr); For 1 player (arr)

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Performances

Recordings

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Synthesized/MIDI

For Piano 4 hands (Purgold)

 Synthesized Performance
#927878 - 21.79MB - 7:56 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 5×⇩ - MP4 - Ken3690

MP4 file (audio/video)
Ken3690 (2024/8/17)

Publisher Info. Phil Bacon 2024
Performers Computer
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Sheet Music

Full Scores

Overture

 Complete Score
#449125 - 6.66MB, 47 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 45×⇩ - IgorCello

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Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., n.d.(ca.1870). Plate 123.
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Misc. Notes Balakirev reorchestrated the overture in 1861.
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Circassian Dances (Act III, No.18)

 Complete Score
#82276 - 6.70MB, 57 (tp, bl, 55) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 413×⇩ - Carolus

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Carolus (2010/10/20)

 Color cover
#82277 - 0.28MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 128×⇩ - Carolus

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Carolus (2010/10/20)

Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., n.d.(ca.1883). Plates 1481a-b.
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Misc. Notes This file is part of the Sibley Mirroring Project.
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 No.18. Title page
#15417 - 0.09MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 132×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 No.18a. Women's Dance
#15418 - 5.44MB, 26 (#1-26) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 157×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 No.18b. Men's Dance (Lezginka)
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Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., n.d.(ca.1883). Plates 1481a-b.
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Vocal Scores

1882 edition (Russian)

 Title page and preliminaries
#14751 - 0.15MB, 3 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 168×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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Lyle Neff (2007/9/29)

⇒ 9 more: Overture, arr. for piano 4-hands • Act I, No.1: Eastern Prayer • Act I, No.2: Duet of Fatima and Her Father • Act I, No.3: Aria of Fatima • Act I, No.4: Chorus of Circassians Returning from a Raid • Act I, No.5: Quartet • Act I, No.6: Aria of the Prisoner • Act I, No.7: Duet of Fatima and the Prisoner • Act I, No.8: Finale I (aria of Kazenbek with chorus)

 Overture, arr. for piano 4-hands
#14752 - 3.19MB, 20 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 257×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act I, No.1: Eastern Prayer
#14753 - 0.37MB, 3 (#22-24) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 139×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act I, No.2: Duet of Fatima and Her Father
#14754 - 1.76MB, 10 (#25-34) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 121×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act I, No.3: Aria of Fatima
#14888 - 1.18MB, 7 (#35-41) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 140×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act I, No.4: Chorus of Circassians Returning from a Raid
#14889 - 1.54MB, 9 (#42-50) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 114×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act I, No.5: Quartet
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 Act I, No.6: Aria of the Prisoner
#14891 - 0.83MB, 5 (#68-72) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 131×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act I, No.7: Duet of Fatima and the Prisoner
#14892 - 1.25MB, 7 (#73-79) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 117×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act I, No.8: Finale I (aria of Kazenbek with chorus)
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Arranger Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (née Purgold, 1848–1919), arranger of overture
Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., n.d.(ca.1883). Plates 122, 1459–61a,б; 1463-65
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Misc. Notes Balakirev reorchestrated the overture in 1861.
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 Act II, No.9: Introduction and Women's Little Chorus
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⇒ 7 more: Act II, No.10: Recitative Scene and Arioso of Mariam • Act II, No.11: Duet of Fekherdin and Kazenbek • Act II, No.12: Duettino of Fatima and Mariam, / Little Chorus of Abubeker's Friends • Act II, No 13: Aria of Abubeker • Act II, No.14: Duettino of Abubeker and Fatima • Act II, No 15: Chorus (with gifts) • Act II, No.16: Finale II (sextet with chorus)

 Act II, No.10: Recitative Scene and Arioso of Mariam
#14946 - 1.52MB, 9 (#103-111) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 105×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act II, No.11: Duet of Fekherdin and Kazenbek
#14947 - 1.66MB, 10 (#112-121) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 95×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act II, No.12: Duettino of Fatima and Mariam,
Little Chorus of Abubeker's Friends
#14948 - 1.30MB, 8 (#122-129) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 107×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act II, No 13: Aria of Abubeker
#14955 - 1.04MB, 6 (#130-135) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 144×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act II, No.14: Duettino of Abubeker and Fatima
#14956 - 0.84MB, 5 (#136-140) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 103×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act II, No 15: Chorus (with gifts)
#14957 - 1.89MB, 10 (#141-150) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 97×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act II, No.16: Finale II (sextet with chorus)
#14958 - 1.44MB, 9 (#151-159) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 100×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., n.d.(ca.1883). Plates 1465a-1473a.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes Plate numbers employed:
1465a, 1466, 1466a, 1467, 1467a, 1468, 1468a, 1469, 1469a, 1470, 1471, 1472, 1473, 1473a
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 Act III, No.17: Festive Chorus
#14984 - 2.71MB, 18 (#160-177) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 101×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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Lyle Neff (2007/10/4)

⇒ 8 more: Act III, No.18: Dances [Recitative] • Act III, No.18a: [Women's Dance], arr. piano 4-hands • Act III, No.18b: [Men's Dance], arr. piano 4-hands • Act III, No.19: Circassian Song • Act III, No.20: Recitative Scene, Duet of Abubeker and Fatima • Act III, No.21: Cavatina of the Prisoner • Act III, No.22: Duet of the Prisoner and Fatima • Act III, No.23: Finale

 Act III, No.18: Dances [Recitative]
#15003 - 0.33MB, 2 (#178-179) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 108×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act III, No.18a: [Women's Dance, arr. piano 4-hands]
#15004 - 1.46MB, 10 (#180-189) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 97×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act III, No.18b: [Men's Dance, arr. piano 4-hands]
#15005 - 2.09MB, 14 (#190-202) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 103×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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Lyle Neff (2007/10/4)

 Act III, No.19: Circassian Song
#15006 - 1.02MB, 7 (#204-210) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 110×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act III, No.20: Recitative Scene, Duet of Abubeker and Fatima
#15007 - 2.90MB, 17 (#211-227) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 116×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act III, No.21: Cavatina of the Prisoner
#15008 - 0.52MB, 4 (#228-231) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 107×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act III, No.22: Duet of the Prisoner and Fatima
#15009 - 1.33MB, 9 (#232-240) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 96×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act III, No.23: Finale
#15010 - 0.80MB, 5 (#241-245) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 92×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., n.d.(ca.1883). Plates 1474-1480a.
Copyright
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Misc. Notes Plate numbers employed:
1474, 1474a, 1475, 1476, 1476a, 1477, 1477a, 1478, 1479, 1480, 1480a
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1885 edition (French)

 Complete Score
#132410 - 19.08MB, 261 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 149×⇩ - Massenetique

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⇒ 4 more: Preliminaries and Overture • Act I • Act II • Act III

 Preliminaries and Overture
#26755 - 2.68MB, 8 (#2-14) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 129×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act I
#26756 - 13.24MB, 40 (#15-93) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 108×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act II
#26757 - 11.13MB, 47 (#94-137) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 108×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Act III
#26758 - 9.67MB, 37 (#138-261) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 116×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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Translator Mr. Guthals (or Goethals?), French text (not credited)
Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., 1885. Plate 595 (Overture, Dances)
Copyright
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Misc. Notes Censor's date at end. Facing pages. Translator not cited on the score, but is identified as Гутгальс in a letter from Borodin to his wife (E.S. Borodina), December 25, 1885, in Письма А.П. Бородина [Letters of A. P. Borodin] (Moscow: Gos. muz. izd.-vo, 1928-1950), t. 4, p. 169. Overture and dances arranged for piano solo (see 1882 Russian ed. for piano 4-hand arrangements).
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Arrangements and Transcriptions

Overture

For Piano 4 hands (Purgold)

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Arranger Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (née Purgold, 1848–1919)
Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., n.d.(ca.1870). Plate 122.
Copyright
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Misc. Notes Balakirev reorchestrated the overture in 1861.
N.N. (Nadezhda Nikolaevna) Purgold, the arranger of this piano 4-hand transcription, became the wife of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Given the plate number and the use of her maiden name in this publication, this arrangement had to have been published originally much earlier than the complete opera, but was nevertheless included in the first piano-vocal score. (Carolus: She married R-K in July 1872; this publication might be from 1870 or even earlier. To date this is IMSLP's earliest Bessel title.)
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For Piano solo (Dütsch)

 Title page and preliminaries (alternate scan, single pages)
#15060 - 0.08MB, 2 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 86×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 Overture, arranged for piano solo
#15065 - 1.09MB, 13 (#2-14) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 162×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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Arranger Georgy Dütsch (1857–1891)
Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., 1885. Plates 1842, 595
Copyright
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Misc. Notes Extracted from the 1885 French edition of the vocal score (see above)
The 1842 plate number is on the first page of the Overture only, all later pages are 595.
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Circassian Dances (Act III, No.18)

Piano solo (Dütsch)

 Title page
#15311 - 0.05MB, 1 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 91×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 No.18b. [Men's Dance]
#15312 - 0.74MB, 10 (#136-145) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 150×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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Arranger Georgy Dütsch (1857–1891)
Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., 1885. Plate 595.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes This piano-solo score follows the music of the original Russian edition of 1882 rather than the later French ed. or the 2nd Russian ed. The sung text is not included in this piano-solo score. Like the piano 4-hand arrangement of the first Russian edition, there is no cut (before the 3/4 coda) in this version of the [Men's] Dance.
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 No.18a. [Women's Dance]
#15068 - 0.51MB, 7 (#207-213) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 139×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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 No.18b. [Men's Dance]
#15070 - 0.76MB, 9 (#214-222) pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 104×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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Publisher. Info. St. Petersburg: W. Bessel & Co., 1885. Plate 595.
Copyright
Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes Extracted from the 1885 French edition of the vocal score (see above). A portion of the Men's Dance (before the 3/4 coda) is cut in this edition and in the full score; see the piano 4-hand arrangement from the 1st Russian ed. and the piano-solo arrangement.
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Librettos

 Complete Libretto (Russian, 1882 edition)
#439687 - 10.49MB, 44 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - V/V/V - 24×⇩ - Lyle Neff

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Publisher. Info. Moscow: Bessel, 1882.
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Free Recordings

Complete opera (1882 edition), piano solo arr.
Lyle Neff (piano)
Overture, piano 4-hand arr.
Synthesized audio (Lyle Neff)
Act III, No.18b. Men's Dance
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General Information

Work Title Prisoner of the Caucasus
Alternative. Title The Prisoner in the Caucasus ; Кавказский пленник ; Le prisonnier du Caucase
Name Translations カフカスの捕虜; Кавказский пленник; Le Prisonnier du Caucase; El prisionero del Cáucaso; Der Gefangene im Kaukasus; Кавказький бранець; Il prigioniero del Caucaso; El presoner del Caucas; Fangen i Kaukasus; Fången i Kaukasus; Tù nhân vùng Kavkaz
Name Aliases El prisionero del Caucaso
Authorities Wikipedia; GND: 1036153630; BNE: XX5364377
Composer Cui, César
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. ICC 82
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's 3 acts (overture + 24 numbers)
Overture
Act I
1. Eastern prayer (men's chorus)
2. Duet of Fatima and Her Father
3. Aria of Fatima
4. Chorus of Circassians Returning from a Raid
5. Quartet
6. Aria of the Prisoner
7. Duet of Fatima and the Prisoner
8. Finale (aria of Kazenbek with chorus)
Act II
9. Introduction and Women's Little Chorus
10. Recitative Scene and Arioso of Mariam
11. Duet of Fekherdin and Kazenbek
12. Duettino of Fatima and Mariam, and Little Chorus of Abubeker's Friends
13. Aria of Abubeker
14. Duettino of Abubeker and Fatima
15. Chorus (with gifts)
16. Finale (sextet with chorus)
Act III
17. Festive Chorus
18. Dances
Recitative
18a. [Women's Dance]
18b. [Men's Dance]
19. Circassian Song
20. Recitative Scene and Duet of Abubeker and Fatima
21. Cavatina of the Prisoner
22. Duet of the Prisoner and Fatima
23. Finale
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. 1857-58; 1881-82; 1885
First Performance. 1883-02-16 – St. Petersburg: Maryinsky Theatre
First Publication. 1882 – St. Petersburg: Bessel
Librettist Viktor Krylov (1838-1906) [not credited on score] after Aleksandr Pushkin
Language Russian; also French translation in 1885
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voices, mixed chorus, orchestra
External Links Wikipedia article
Extra Information Version History
The original version of this opera, from 1857-58, was in two acts and did not get past rehearsals. The 2nd version of 1881-82 gained a new middle (2nd) act and the Women's Dance of Act III and was published in Russian as the first edition, with a premiere in 1883. For the 1886 Western premiere in Liege, Belgium, Cui added further music to the beginning of the finale of the 2nd act, thus engendering in 1885 a second version of the opera published in a French edition and the 2nd Russian edition. The opera was published in 3 piano-vocal scores (the 2 Russian editions and the one French edition), a piano-solo score, and at least one full score. The overture, dances, and Circassian Song were published separately in full score as well.

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