Not Love Alone (also translated Not for Love Alone or Not Only Love; ) is the first opera by Rodion Shchedrin, written 1961, revised in 1971.Peter J Schmelz - Such Freedom, If Only Musical : Unofficial Soviet Music 2009 0199711941 p277 "10 It was not only unofficial conductors or composers who suffered during this period, for Shchedrin also became a target after ... along with his first opera Not Love Alone (Ne tol'ko lyubov') (1961, revised in 1971).16 Shchedrin himself went on."
Irina Arkhipova created the role of Varvara,Historical Dictionary of Russian Music - Page 42 0810879808 Daniel Jaffé - 2012 "She created the roles of Klavdiya in Sergey Prokofiev's Story of a Real Man, the Commissar in Alexander Kholminov's An Optimistic Tragedy, Nilovna in Tikhon Khrennikov's The Mother, and Varvara in Rodion Shchedrin's Not Love Alone." and recorded Varvara's aria on her Arias recital for Melodiya 1967.Billboard - 6 May 1967 - Page 12 Among the standout selections are arias from Arensky's "The Fountain of Bakhchisarai," "Moussorgsky's "Khovanschina," Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky," and Shchedrin's "Not Love Alone."
A well-known piece from this opera (usually played by cello and piano) is the humorous Quadrille from the second Act (Scene 15: The arrival of Varvara Vasilyevna and quadrille).
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