Задание 17 Юнит 16 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 6 класс
17 Read fact files below and match names A-D with facts 1-4. Then look at the pictures of the ballets and operas.
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17 Read fact files below and match names A-D with facts 1-4. Then look at the pictures of the ballets and operas. Do you know their titles in English and in Russian?
1 As a young man he wanted to join the army.
He sang well and played the piano.
He left many musical pieces unfinished and some of them were completed by other composers.
His opera ‘Boris Godunov’ was a great success but didn’t bring much money. He died in poverty.
2 He began making music when he was only 10; he was already composing by the age of 18. In his youth, he gained fame as a pianist and a singer.
He was a friend of Alexander Pushkin and wrote the opera ‘Ruslan and Ludmila’, based on Pushkin’s poem.
His ‘Patriotic Melody’ written in 1833 served as Russia’s national anthem from 1991 till 2000.
3 For many years music was just a hobby for him.
His works were not a success at first, but later he was given an honorary degree by Cambridge University.
His ballets ‘Swan Lake’ and ‘The Nutcracker’ and his operas ‘Eugene Onegin’, ‘Yolanta’ and ‘The Dame of Spades’ made him world famous.
4 He graduated from the Naval Academy, but devoted his whole life to music.
He was a Professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatoire.
He is famous for his 15 operas, which were mostly based on stories from Russian history and fairy tales. These include ‘The Golden Cockerel’, based on Pushkin’s fairy tale.