The Gamblers (Shostakovich)

The Gamblers
Unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich in 1950
Native title
Russian: Игроки, romanized: Igroki
LibrettistShostakovich
LanguageRussian
Based onThe Gamblers
by Nikolai Gogol
Premiere
18 September 1978 (1978-09-18) (concert performance)
Leningrad Conservatory

The Gamblers (Russian: Игроки, romanized: Igroki), Op. 63, is an unfinished opera, composed by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1941/42 to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy The Gamblers (1842). The surviving first act lasts around 47 minutes. Krzysztof Meyer realised a completion in German, Die Spieler, in 1981. Both versions were performed on stage and recorded.

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