Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".

Verstovsky, Askoldova mogila. Consonance 81-0015, "World Premiere Recording". Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and Academic Large Choir, Yuri Nikonenko. SOURCE: the back inlay of the disc itself, scanned in the rip folder as Verstovsky_Page_2.jpg, with the booklet pages beside it. It is the primary document for this issue and it carries everything entered here: the catalogue number 81-0015, DDD, the total timing 117:38, the barcode 794081001529, the cast role by role with voice types, "Academic Large Choir / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / Yuri Nikonenko", the disc split ("CD 1 - Act 1, Act 2 (beginning) - Scenes 1-11, 59:40" and "CD II - Act 2 (conclusion), Acts 3-4 - Scenes 12-24, 57:58"), the recording engineer (Lubov Doronina) and editor (Tamara Medvedeva), and the line "Manufactured under commission from the Division of Musical Broadcasting of the OSTANKINO State TV and Radio Company". THE YEAR IS THE RECORDING YEAR, NOT THE RELEASE YEAR. The inlay carries both, in separate blocks, and they differ: "(P) and (C) 1996 MCO, Inc." against "Recorded in Studio 5 of the State House for Broadcasting and Recording, Moscow in 1991". 1991 is entered. The booklet essay is copyright 1995 Mark Pakman, which is consistent with a 1996 issue of a 1991 tape. THE FILES MATCH THE ISSUE EXACTLY. The two APE images in the rip run 59:40.00 and 57:58.00, which is the inlay's per-disc timing to the second and sums to its stated 117:38. The EAC logs report "Copy OK / No errors occured", range quality 100.0%, read offset correction 6, and both .cue files carry PERFORMER "Nikonenko". So this is the complete commercial issue, not an excerpt. NEITHER MUSICBRAINZ NOR DISCOGS HOLDS IT. Searched MusicBrainz by barcode 794081001529 (0 releases) and by free text, and Discogs by the same barcode, by "Verstovsky Askold Grave" and by "Consonance 81-0015": nothing. operadis has no page for Verstovsky either (CLVEASKO.HTM is a 404). The inlay is therefore the only catalogue evidence there is, which is why it is quoted at length above. THE OPERA. Askoldova mogila (Аскольдова могила), romantic opera in four acts with spoken dialogue, libretto by Mikhail Zagoskin after his own novel, premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, 16 September 1835; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%27s_Grave_(opera) . A staged opera, so in scope. findopera held no Verstovsky at all, so composer 951, opera 2587 and characters 20473-20486 were created for this; the role list follows the Wikipedia article, cross-checked against the inlay. The inlay's spellings differ slightly in places (Vishata for Vyshata, Alexei for Alexey), and Fenkal, a Varangian skald, is on the inlay but not in Wikipedia's list. DOUBLING is as the inlay prints it and is not a mistake: Yuri Markelov sings both Alexey and Fenkal, Boris Bezhko both Vyshata and Sadko, Andrei Salnikov both Frelaf and Yurka. ONE UNCERTAIN IDENTIFICATION: Lyubasha. The inlay gives "Lidiya Kovaleva". findopera has two singers of that name -- 15642 "Lidia Kovaleva" (Bolshoi, Madama Butterfly 1967, Carmen 1977) and 21677 "Lydia Kovaleva" (Tsarskaya nevesta 1983) -- which look like one person entered twice. 21677 is used here as the nearer in date to 1991. If the two are merged, this portrayal should follow. Reported separately via feedback. NO TITLE ROLE: the opera is named for a monument, not a person, so there is none to bill. Top billing goes to Neizvestnyi (Verestnikov, first-billed on the cover), Torop (Kuznetsov) and Nadezhda (Simkina) -- the three the booklet's own note singles out as "meticulously drawn", against Vseslav, of whom it says the composer "is less interested ... receives no aria of his own and participates only in ensembles".