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* BadassBaritone: BaritoneOfStrength: Ruslan, a brave and daring warrior, is sung by baritones or basses.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Ratmir's honorable KnightInShiningArmor nature is established when, after Ludmila's kidnapping, he is the one to call ''all'' the suitors to quickly go to search for her, showing that her safety is more important to him than their rivalry.
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* VoiceOfTheLegion: The Head is voiced by a chorus of basses.
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* AscendedExtra: Ratmir is mostly a background character in the poem but plays a much more active part here, eventually befriending Ruslan and accompanying him on his quest.
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* SettingUpdate: Unlike in the opera, poem, the plot takes place at least several decades before the Baptism of Rus.
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* SettingUpdate: Unlike in the opera, the plot takes place at least several decades before the Baptism of Rus.Rus.
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* CanonForeigner: Gorislava, one of Ratmir's slaves who desperately tries to win his heart back.
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* CanonForeigner: Gorislava, one of Ratmir's slaves who desperately tries to win his heart back. Ratmir does end up with another woman after falling out of love with Ludmila in the poem, but she is a completely different character.
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** The twelve sirens are neutral characters in Pushkin's poem (admittedly, they delay Ratmir's quest, but they seem to have no malicious intent and later he gives it up on his own accord anyway). Here, they are Naina's minions explicitly sent to lure Ludmila's potential rescuers away.
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** The twelve sirens are neutral characters in Pushkin's poem (admittedly, they delay Ratmir's quest, but they seem to have no malicious intent and later he gives it up on his own accord anyway). Here, they are Naina's minions explicitly sent to lure Ludmila's potential rescuers away.into a trap.
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''Ruslan and Ludmila'' is a 1842 opera by Mikhail Glinka, based on Creator/AlexanderPushkin's epic [[Literature/RuslanAndLudmila poem of the same name]]. Like in the poem, the plot focuses on young Prince Ruslan trying to rescue his bride Ludmila who has been kidnapped by the wizard Chernomor.
!! The opera contains examples of:
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** The twelve sirens are neutral characters in Pushkin's poem (admittedly, they delay Ratmir's quest, but they seem to have no malicious intent and later he gives it up on his own accord anyway). Here, they are Naina's minions explicitly sent to lure Ludmila's potential rescuers away.
** In the poem, Naina plots to get Ruslan killed but ignores Ratmir. Here, she wants to kill them both.
* AdaptedOut: Rogday, one of Ludmila's suitors in the poem who does nothing plot-relevant before getting killed practically in the beginning, isn't included in the opera.
* AltoVillainess: Naina the wicked witch is a mezzo-soprano.
* BadassBaritone: Ruslan, a brave and daring warrior, is sung by baritones or basses.
* CanonForeigner: Gorislava, one of Ratmir's slaves who desperately tries to win his heart back.
* CrosscastRole: Ratmir is sung by a contralto.
* SettingUpdate: Unlike in the opera, the plot takes place at least several decades before the Baptism of Rus.
!! The opera contains examples of:
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** The twelve sirens are neutral characters in Pushkin's poem (admittedly, they delay Ratmir's quest, but they seem to have no malicious intent and later he gives it up on his own accord anyway). Here, they are Naina's minions explicitly sent to lure Ludmila's potential rescuers away.
** In the poem, Naina plots to get Ruslan killed but ignores Ratmir. Here, she wants to kill them both.
* AdaptedOut: Rogday, one of Ludmila's suitors in the poem who does nothing plot-relevant before getting killed practically in the beginning, isn't included in the opera.
* AltoVillainess: Naina the wicked witch is a mezzo-soprano.
* BadassBaritone: Ruslan, a brave and daring warrior, is sung by baritones or basses.
* CanonForeigner: Gorislava, one of Ratmir's slaves who desperately tries to win his heart back.
* CrosscastRole: Ratmir is sung by a contralto.
* SettingUpdate: Unlike in the opera, the plot takes place at least several decades before the Baptism of Rus.
