In the 20th century, the best examples of comic opera by Russian composers were Igor Stravinsky's Mavra (1922) and The Rake's Progress (1951), Sergey Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges (1919) and Betrothal in a Monastery (1940-1941), and Dmitri Shostakovich's The Nose (1928, staged 1930).
The 21st century in Russian comic opera began with the noisy premieres of two works whose genre could be described as "opera-farce": .