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Events on Friday 9 December 1842 1
1842Premiere of Glinka's Ruslan and LyudmilaGlinka's second opera opens in Saint PetersburgMikhail Glinka's opera based on Pushkin's poem premiered at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Audiences were cool towards it at first. Its use of Russian and Eastern idioms strongly influenced later Russian composers.