A Life for the Tsar
Opera in four acts with an epilogue
Libretto
Georgi von Rosen, Sergej Gorodezki
Premiere
9 December 1836, St Petersburg (Bolschoi Theatre)
Cast
IVAN SUSANIN (bass)
ANTONIDA (soprano)
VANYA (contralto)
BOGDAN SOBININ (tenor)
POLISH COMMANDER (bass)
POLISH MESSENGER (tenor)
CHORUS
Russian peasants, Poles
Place
Russia
Time
1612 /1613