Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
With my present paper—the fifth which I have had the honour to read before this Association—my first idea of offering you an outline sketch of the Development of National Opera in Russia is carried to a conclusion.
∗ Since the reading of this paper, Rimsky-Korsakov was dismissed from his professorship at the Conservatoire, in consequence of his frank criticisms of the existing bureaucracy. This injustice was so greatly resented by his colleagues, that it was followed by the resignation of the Director and the most prominent members of the staffGoogle Scholar