A recent performance of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin inspired me to create this new top 5 topic.
Miserly Knight
The Queen of Spades
Eugene Onegin
Cherevichki (essentially the same opera as Vakula the smith, both operas are magnificent)
The Golden Cockerel
war and peace
boris godounov
khovantchina
legend of the invisible city o kitezh
queen of spades
Can't think of too many since opera is not a favorite genre of mine, but...
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Stravinsky: Perséphone
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
Rachmaninov: Aleko
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya
Kashchey the Immortal
Fiery Angel
The Nose
Sadko
Love for Three Oranges
The Fiery Angel
Khovanshchina
Love for Three Oranges
Aleko
The Miserly Knight
Eugene Onegin
Boris Godunov
Khovanshchina
The Queen of Spades
May Night
Boris Godunov
Khovanshchina
Life with an Idiot
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Eugene Onegin
So far it´s only Boris that I know reasonably and really appreciate.
Mavra, Mazeppa, Aleko:
several background music hearings due to attractive episodes, but it´s been a while.
A good deal more in the collection, though.
Mussorgsky:
- Boris Godunov
- Khovanshchina
Prokofiev:
- The Gambler
- The Fiery Angel
- The Love of the Three Oranges
But...I really must get to know Taneyev's Oresteia and Rimsky-Korsakov's Kitezh (I have a huch they'd both be my cup of tea ;) )
Борис Годунов
Хованщина
Огненный ангел
Леди Макбет Мценского уезда
Князь Игорь
Not considering The Rake's Progress a Russian Opera, otherwise it would have been in my list.
Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov
Nosferatu
Sverliytsy
The Rake's Progress