Editing Prince Igor (section)

{{short description|Opera by Alexander Borodin}}
{{about|the opera|the historical figure|Igor Svyatoslavich|the Warren G song|Prince Igor (song)|1969 filmed version|Prince Igor (1969 film)}}
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{{Infobox opera 
| name              = Prince Igor
| composer          = [[Alexander Borodin]]
| image             = Score Prince Igor.jpg
| image_upright     = 1.1
| caption           = Title page of the published score. The text reads: "''Prince Igor'', opera in 4 acts with a prologue, words and music by A.P. Borodin, subject adapted from ''The Lay of Igor's Host''."
| native_name       = {{langx|ru|Князь Игорь|translit=Knyaz' Igor'}}
| librettist        = Borodin
| language          = Russian
| based_on          = ''[[The Tale of Igor's Campaign|The Lay of Igor's Host]]''
| premiere_date     = {{Start date|1890|11|04|df=y}}
| premiere_location = [[Mariinsky Theatre]], Saint Petersburg
}}
'''''Prince Igor''''' ({{langx|ru|Князь Игорь|Knyaz Igor}}, {{Audio-IPA|Ru-Knyaz Igor.ogg|listen}}) is an [[opera]] in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by [[Alexander Borodin]].

The composer adapted the [[libretto]] from the early Russian epic ''[[The Tale of Igor's Campaign|The Lay of Igor's Host]]'', which recounts the campaign of the 12th-century prince [[Igor Svyatoslavich]] against the invading [[Cumans|Cuman]] ("Polovtsian") tribes in 1185.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Norris |first1=Stephen M. |last2=Sunderland |first2=Willard |title=Russia's People of Empire: Life Stories from Eurasia, 1500 to the Present |date=2012 |publisher=Indiana University Press |isbn=978-0-253-00176-4 |page=185 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-g26KL3v7A8C |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Taruskin |first1=Richard |title=The Grove Book of Operas |date=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-530907-2 |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195309072.001.0001/acref-9780195309072-e-204 |language=en |chapter=Prince Igor}}</ref> He also incorporated material drawn from two medieval Kievan chronicles. The opera was left unfinished upon the composer's death in 1887 and was edited and completed by [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]] and [[Alexander Glazunov]]. It was first performed in [[St. Petersburg]], Russia, in 1890.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rzhevsky |first1=Nicholas |title=The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture |date=5 April 2012 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-00252-4 |page=263 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MIvnjlw7ICsC |language=en}}</ref>