the tragedy. Notable selections Orchestral Introduction Mary's Romance (Act I, Tableau 1) MacGregor's Narrative (Act I, Tableau 1) Lesley's Song (Act II, Tableau 1) Ratcliff's Narrative (Act II, Tableau 1) Scene by the Black Stone (Act II, Tableau 2) Orchestral Introduction to Act III Mary's [Second] Romance (Act III) Margaret's Narrative (Act III) Duet of Ratcliff and Mary (Act III) Bibliography Bernandt, G.B. Словарь опер впервые поставленных или изданных в дореволюционной России и в СССР, 1736-1959 [Dictionary of Operas First Performed or Published in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and in the USSR, 1836-1959] (Москва: Советский композитор, 1962), p. 56. Cui, César. Вилльям Ратклифф: опера в трех действиях. Фортепианное переложение с пением [William Ratcliff, opera in three acts. Piano-vocal score]. Leipzig: R. Seitz, 1869. Nazarov, A.F. Цезарь Антонович Кюи [Cezar' Antonovič Kjui]. Moskva: Muzyka, 1989. Stasov, V.V. "Цезарь Антонович Кюи: биографический очерк" ["César Antonovich Cui: a biographical sketch."] Артист [Artist] [Moscow], no. 34 (1894). Taruskin, Richard. Opera and Drama in Russia As Preached and Practiced in the 1860s. New ed. Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1993. External links MIDI rendering of orchestral Introduction to the opera, from Russisches Musikarkhiv Online version of Heine's original tragedy (in German) Operas by César Cui Russian-language operas 1869 operas Operas Literary characters introduced in 1869