Knjas Igor

from Alexander Borodin


Libretto

Alexander Borodin (after Wladimir Stassow)

Premiere

4 November 1890, St Petersburg (Mariinsky Theatre)

Cast

PRINCE IGOR (baritone)
YAROPSLAVNA (soprano)
VLADIMIR (tenor)
PRINCE VLADIMIR GALITSKY (high baritone)
KHAN KONCHAK (bass)
KHAN GZAK (silent)
KONCHAKNOVA (contralto)
OVLUR (tenor)
SKULA (bass)
EROSHKA (teno)
NURSE (soprano)
POLOVTSIAN GIRL (soprano)

VHORUS
Russian princes and princesses, boyars and their wives, elders, russian warriors, attendant girls, the people, Polovtsian Khans, Konchakovna's friends, Konchak's slaves, Russian prisoners-of-war, Polovtsian guards

Place

Time

1185

Composer

Borodin, Alexander