Mazeppa
Opera in three acts
Libretto
Pjotr Tschaikowsky und Viktor Burenin (after Aleksandr Pushkin)
Premiere
15 February 1884, Moscow (Bolshoi Theatre)
Cast
MAZEPPA (baritone)
KOCHUBEI (bass)
LYUBOV KOCHUBEI (mezzo-soprano)
MARIYA (soprano)
ANDREI (tenor)
ORLIK (bass)
ISKRA (tenor)
DRUNKEN KOSSAK (tenor)
CHORUS
young girls, Cossacks, guests, Kochubei's servants, mazeppa's bodyguards, monks, executioners
Place
Time
Beginning of the 18th century