Works by Russian composers which are not
based on a strictly "Russian" subject
(i.e. lacking primarily
Russian characters or setting, even if author of the source is Russian)
(Opera unless otherwise indicated)
Arensky
- Nal and Damayanti (from Indian legend)
- Raphael
Balakirev
- King Lear, overture and incidental music
- Overture on Czech Themes (=In Bohemia), orchestra
Cui
- Angelo, based on Hugo, set in Padua
- Feast in Time of Plague, based on Pushkin, set in London
- Le Flibustier, set in France
- Little Red-Riding Hood, Perrault fairy-tale
- Mademoiselle Fifi, based on Maupassant, set in France, 1871
- The Mandarin's Son, set in China
- Mateo Falcone, based on Merimee, set in Corsica
- Mlada, set in ancient Baltic Slav lands
- Puss-in-Boots, Perrault fairy-tale
- The Saracen, based on Dumas p`ere, set in France
- William Ratcliff, based on Heine, set in Scotland
Dargomyzhsky
- Esmeralda, based on Hugo's dramatization of Hunchback of
Notre-Dame
- The Stone Guest, from Pushkin's Don Juan play
- The Triumph of Bacchus
Glazunov
- King of the Jews, incidental music
- Two Overtures on Greek Themes, orchestra
- Suite from the Middle Ages, orchestra
Musorgsky
- Fair at Sorochinsk, set in Ukraine
- Salambo, unfinished, based on Flaubert's novel
Napravnik
Rachmaninoff
- Francesca da Rimini, based on Dante
- The Miserly Knight, based on Pushkin play
Rimsky-Korsakov
- Capriccio Espagnol, orchestra
- Christmas Eve, set in Ukraine ("Little Russia")
- From Homer, cantata, based on The Odyssey, orig. opera project
- Mlada, set in ancient Baltic Slav lands
- May Night, set in Ukraine ("Little Russia")
- Mozart & Salieri, based on Pushkin's play
- Pan Wojewoda, set in Poland
- Servilia, set in 1st-century Rome
Aleksandr Serov
- Judith, based on Apocrypha
Taneev
- John of Damascus, cantata
- Oresteia, based on Aeschylus
Tchaikovsky
- Capriccio Italien, orchestra
- Cherevichki (=Vakula the Smith), set in Ukraine
- Francesca da Rimini, orchestra
- Hamlet, orchestra
- Iolanta, set in 14th-c. France
- The Maid of Orleans, about Joan of Arc
- Overture on the Danish National Anthem, orchestra
- Romeo & Juliet, orchestra