Musicology Annotation << Back To the Question about Anton Arensky’s Theatre Music Marina S. Filatova The paper is dedicated to the history of development of theatre music created by prominent Russian composer Anton Arensky. The complicated fate of the operas Arensky is presented, reasons of their oblivion in the 20th century are discussed. Keywords: Arensky, theatre creation, opera, creative style, epoch. Contacts: E-mail: mserg1958@mail.ru Pp. 17-20.