Which had more acts/ scenes, The Snow Maiden or Sadko?
Sadko (opera) Sadko (Russian: Садко , the name of the main character) is an opera in seven scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The libretto was written by the composer, with assistance from Vladimir Belsky, Vladimir Stasov, and others. Rimsky-Korsakov was first inspired by the Bylina of Sadko in 1867, when he completed a tone poem on the subject, his Op. 5. After finishing his second revision of this work in 1891, he decided to turn it into a dramatic work.
The Malachite Casket (fairy tale) "The Malachite Casket" (Russian: Малахитовая шкатулка , "Malahitovaja shkatulka" ), also known as "The Malachite Box", is a folk tale (the so-called "skaz") of the Ural region collected and reworked by Pavel Bazhov. It was first published in the several issues of the Sverdlovsk newspaper "Na Smenu!" in September—November 1938, and in "Uralsky Sovremennik" (volume 1, 1938). It was later released as a part of the "The Malachite Casket" collection. "The Malachite Casket" is considered to be one of the best stories in the collection. The story was translated from Russian into English by Alan Moray Williams in 1944, and by Eve Manning in the 1950s.