The Gamblers (Shostakovich)
The Gamblers, Op. 63, is an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy The Gamblers. The surviving first act lasts around 47 minutes.
Shostakovich, who was trying to set every word of Gogol's play, abandoned the opera as too long and unwieldy. He returned to the work towards the end of his life, reusing material from the overture in the scherzo of the sonata for viola and piano.Meyer completion
The opera was completed by Krzysztof Meyer as Die Spieler premiered in Leningrad 1978.Recordings
