Graf Cagliostro

Graf Cagliostro is a comic opera in two acts by Mikael Tariverdiev, written in 1981 to a libretto by Nikolai Kemarsky, after the tale of the same name by Alexei Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
Tolstoy's novella, based on the quack Cagliostro, was updated by composer and librettist so that it impinges on the modern world,. Tariverdiev wrote:

Recording

Moscow Chamber Theatre, conducted by Vladimir Agronsky. Bomba Music, Russia 2003