Product Description

May Night, or the Drowned Maiden” (Russian: “Майская ночь, or Утопленница”, Mayskaya noch’, or Utoplennitsa, 1831) is the third tale in the collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol.  It was made into the opera May Night by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1878–79 and also a Ukrainian setting by Mykola Lysenko.