title: Not Love Alone
text: # Not Love Alone
  
  Not Love Alone (also translated Not for Love Alone or Not Only Love; Russian: Не только любовь; Ne tol'ko lyubov') is the first opera of Rodion Shchedrin, written 1961, revised in 1971.
  
  Irina Arkhipova created the role of Varvara, and recorded Varvara's aria on her Arias recital for Melodiya 1967.
  
  A well-known piece from this opera (usually played by cello and piano) is the humorous Quadrille from the second Act (Scene 15: The arrival of Varvara Vasilyevna and quadrille).
  
  