| The Golden Cockerel | |
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| Opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | |
 Ivan Bilibin's 1909 stage set design for Act 2: The Tsardom of Tsar Dodon, Town Square | |
| Native title | Zolotoy petushok (Золотой петушок) |
| Other title | Le coq d'or |
| Librettist | Vladimir Belsky |
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| Based on | Pushkin's "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" (1834) |
| Premiere | 7 October 1909 Solodovnikov Theatre, Moscow, Russia |
The Golden Cockerel (Russian: Золотой петушок, romanized: Zolotoy petushok ) is an opera in three acts, with a short prologue and an even shorter epilogue, composed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, his last complete opera, before his death in 1908. Its libretto written by Vladimir Belsky, is derived from Alexander Pushkin's 1834 poem, The Tale of the Golden Cockerel. The opera was completed in 1907, and premiered in 1909, in Moscow, after the composer's death. Apart from Russia, it has often been performed in French, as Le coq d'or.