Question

His opera Prine Igor, completed posthumously by Rimsky-Korsakoff and Glazounov, contains the famous, exotic "Polovetsian Dances", which are frequently performed seperately as an orchestral suite?

Answer 1

Alexander Borodin composed the opera Prince Igor which contains the "Polovetsian Dances", not Igor Stravinsky. The dances are frequently performed as an orchestral suite, separate from the opera.

Step-by-step explanation:

The opera Prince Igor, which features the renowned "Polovetsian Dances", was composed by Alexander Borodin, not Igor Stravinsky.

Although Stravinsky is a famous Russian composer known for The Rite of Spring, the Polovetsian Dances come from a different composer's opera.

Borodin's opera, Prince Igor, was indeed completed posthumously by his contemporaries Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov. It is Borodin's work that includes these famous dances, which can often be heard performed separately as an orchestral suite in concerts.