A Cossack Beyond the Danube (1953)

Cast

Ivan Patorzhinsky, Mariia Lytvynenko-Volhemut, Yelizaveta Chavdar, N. Sheliyuzhko, Mikhail Grishko

Overview

Zaporozhets za Dunayem (Ukrainian: Запорожець за Дунаєм, translated as A Zaporozhian (Cossack) Beyond the Danube, also referred to as Cossacks in Exile) is a Ukrainian comic opera with spoken dialogue in three acts with music and libretto by the composer Semen Hulak-Artemovsky (1813–1873). The orchestration has subsequently been rewritten by composers such as Reinhold Glière and Heorhiy Maiboroda. This is one of the best-known Ukrainian comic operas depicting national themes.