Sadko
Opera-bylina in seven scenes
Libretto
Nikolai Rimksy-Korssakoff
Premiere
7 January 1898, Moscow (Solodovnikov Theatre)
Cast
SADKO (tenor)
PRINCES VOLKHOVA (soprano)
SEA KING (bass)
LYUBAVA (mezzo-soprano)
NEZHATA (contralto)
SOPEL (tenor)
DUDA (bass)
OLD PILGRIM (bass)
VIKING MERCHANT (bass)
INDIAN MERCHANT (tenor)
VENETIAN MERCHANT (baritone)
TWO ELDERS (tenor and bass)
CHORUS
merchants, sea-maidens, clowns, people, itinerant friars, soothsayers, sailors, sea creatures
Place
Nowgorod, on the sea, in the deep of the sea
Time