Tamara Milashkina

Batmanova, once a serf, sets Paris aflame with her singing and now returns to the court of the Prince in 19th-century Russia. The Prince wants Batmanova for himself, but she loves a young nobleman who is technically still a serf because his papers have been lost.

1980 Bolshoi production of the Rimsky-Korsakov opera conducted by Yuri Simonov.