May Night
| May Night | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | |
Leonid Sobinov as Levko, Bolshoi Theatre in 1909 | |
| Native title | |
| Language | Russian |
| Based on | "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden" by Nikolai Gogol |
| Premiere | 1892 Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg |
May Night (Russian: Майская ночь, romanized: Mayskaya noch ⓘ) is a comic opera in three acts, four scenes, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from a libretto by the composer and is based on Nikolai Gogol's story "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden", from his collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1829-1832).
The work was composed between 1878 and 1879 and first performed in 1880 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg in Russia.
May Night is not part of the standard operatic repertoire in the West.