Overture : Russia's imperial prima donnas
Russian Minervas staging empire
The play of possibilities : serfs enacting aristocrats, countesses playing peasants
Catherine the empress(ario) : making tales into princely operas
Oleg at the roots of Russian historical opera
Interlude : to patria and nation
Ruslan and Liudmila: the princess, the witch, and the dwarf
Rusalka : water, power, and women
Mlada and the spellbinding female circle
Sadko : he is the hero!
The inescapable queen.