The myth of Mikhail Glinka still divides the history of Russian music, to the point that any influence on the creation of Russian opera before him is considered part of ‘prehistory’ in artistic terms. This is certainly true for the works of Catterino Cavos, a Venetian composer who made his career as a music director at the St Petersburg Imperial Theatres. The main purpose of this article is to compare Cavos’s opera Ivan Susanin (1815) with Glinka’s A Life for the Tsar (1836), in order to highlight aspects of continuity in the process of creating the Russian operatic tradition. In this analysis, both Western and Russian traditions will be taken into consideration, which will enable a better assessment of Cavos’s contribution to the evolution of Russian music within a European frame.

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Catterino Cavos 的 Ivan Susanin 和 Mikhail Glinka 的沙皇生活：比较无与伦比

米哈伊尔·格林卡 (Mikhail Glinka) 的神话仍然分裂了俄罗斯音乐的历史，以至于任何对他之前的俄罗斯歌剧创作的影响都被认为是艺术“史前史”的一部分。这对于威尼斯作曲家卡特里诺·卡沃斯的作品来说无疑是正确的，他的职业生涯是在圣彼得堡皇家剧院担任音乐总监。本文的主要目的是比较卡沃斯的歌剧伊万·苏萨宁(1815) 与格林卡的沙皇的一生（1836 年），以突出在创造俄罗斯歌剧传统的过程中的连续性方面。在此分析中，西方和俄罗斯的传统都将被考虑在内，这将有助于更好地评估卡沃斯在欧洲框架内对俄罗斯音乐演变的贡献。