The Young Guard (opera)

The Young Guard
Opera by Yuliy Meitus
A scene from an early production of The Young Guard illustrated in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia
Librettist	Andriy Malyshko
Language	Ukrainian
Based on	The Young Guard by Alexander Fadeyev
Premiere	7 November 1947 (1947-11-07) T. G. Shevchenko Opera and Ballet Theatre, Kyiv

The Young Guard (Ukrainian: Молода гвардiя, romanized: Molodaya Gvardia) is an opera in four acts and seven scenes by the Ukrainian composer Yuliy Meitus, with a libretto by Andriy Malyshko.^[1]

The opera deals with the fate of the youth resistance group The Young Guard in Krasnodon, Ukraine, during the Second World War. The libretto was based on the novel of the same name by the Russian author Alexander Fadeyev. The original version of the opera premiered in Kyiv in 1947, and a reworked version was performed for the first time in Stalin (now Donetsk, Ukraine) in 1950.^[1]