The story takes place in St Petersburg in Russia. 2. The article and podcast point out some of the changes in the music of Scheherazade and how the music reflects the voices of the characters and what is happening in the story.

Where is Arabian Nights set?

A frame narrative set in India and Indochina in the legendary past links a series of inner tales from Persia, Arabia, and China; in circulation since the ninth century, transcribed into Arabic in a thirteenth-century version that survives in the fourteenth-century Syrian manuscript Alf laylah wa-laylah (The Thousand ...

Is Scheherazade Persian?

Scheherazade is a legendary Persian queen who is the storyteller in One Thousand and One Nights. The story, which was written many hundreds of years ago, tells of a Arabian king who married a young girl every night. At the end of every night he would send his new wife to have her head chopped off.