Libretto
Modest Tschaikowsky (after Aleksandr Pushkin)
Premiere
19 December 1890, St Peterburg (Marjinsky Theatre)
Cast
HERMAN (tenor)
COUNT TOMSKY (also ZLATOGOR) (baritone)
PRINCE ELETSKY (baritone)
CHEKALINSKY (tenor)
SURIN (bass)
CHAPLITSKY (tenor)
NARUMOV (bass)
MASTER OF CEREMONIES (tenor)
THE COUNTESS (mezzo-soprano)
LIZA (soprano)
POLINA (also MILOVZOR) (contralto)
GOVERNESS (mezzo-soprano)
MASHA (soprano)
PRILEPA (soprano)
CHILD-COMMANDER (spoken role)
CHORUS
nurses, governesses, boys, promenaders, girls, guests and gamblers, church choir
Place
Time
End of the 18th century