Opera is a crucial music and
cultural entertainment to russia. Russian
operas are known world wide due to the range of operas created in the
second half of the 19th century and certain operas of the 20th century.
Rock music came to Russia from the West and for a long time remained
hidden from the public bicause of the strict Soviet Establishment.
Russian music is an individual in the art of symphony, from the use of
rich and fresh folk music material of Eurasian type, blending 'eastern'
and 'western' musics. Author's song is a genre that a
songwriter performs one's songs alone to his/her own guitar, one great
composer is Alexander Vertinsky. Folk music is certainly the
oldest of them.
The roots of Russian folk music date as far back as to the middle of
the first millennium AC, when Slavic tribes settled in the European
part of the present territory of Russia.
