Neprigozhaya
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Neprigozhaya (Russian Непригожая, English The Ugly Girl), also known by its German language title Die Tochter des Bojaren (The Boyar's Daughter), is a one-act opera of 1873 by Ella Adayevskaya (the pseudonym adopted by the composer Elizaveta von Schultz).
The opera, which was listed by Adayevskaya as her Op. 5, has a libretto by Rudolf Minzlow (also known as Muntzloff) (1811-1883) adapted by Georg von Schultz and translated from its original German into Russian by Peter Ivanovich Kalashnikov, who translated many lyrics for Adayevskaya's songs. The opera was composed in the period 1872/3, but was frequently revised by the composer up until the 1920s.[1] The libretto in Russian was printed in St. Petersburg in 1873. The manuscript piano score bears the title, in German, Salomonida, die Tochter des Bojaren.[2]