Top 5 favorite Russian operas

[Jaakko Keskinen]

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

[Spineur]

war and peace
boris godounov
khovantchina
legend of the invisible city o kitezh
queen of spades

[Mirror Image]

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

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Kashchey the Immortal
Fiery Angel
The Nose
Sadko
Love for Three Oranges

[North Star]

The Fiery Angel
Khovanshchina
Love for Three Oranges
Aleko
The Miserly Knight

[Drasko]

Eugene Onegin
Boris Godunov
Khovanshchina
The Queen of Spades
May Night

[Todd]

Boris Godunov
Khovanshchina
Life with an Idiot
Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Eugene Onegin

[Turner]

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.

[ritter]

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  )

[GioCar]

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.

[vandermolen]

Boris Godunov

[nathanb]

Boris Godunov
Nosferatu
Sverliytsy
The Rake's Progress