Historic Stage

23 February, 19:00

THE NOBLEWOMAN VERA SHELOGA
Premiere of this production: 18 March 2019.

THE MAID OF PSKOV
Premiere of this production: 29 December 1951.
Revival of the production: 25 April 2008.

The performance has two intervals.
Running time: 4 hours.
Libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov after the drama by Lev Mey


THE NOBLEWOMAN VERA SHELOGA

Musical Director
: Valery Gergiev
Stage Director: Yuri Laptev
Sets and costumes: Pyotr Okunev
Video Designer: Vadim Dulenko
Lighting Designer: Yegor Kartashov
Musical Preparation: Irina Soboleva

Sets and costumes by Fyodor Fyodorovsky from opera The Maid of Pskov (production by Yuri Laptev)

THE MAID OF PSKOV

Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Revival Stage Director: Yuri Laptev
Revival Set Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev
Revival Costume Designer: Tatiana Noginova
Lighting Designer: Damir Ismagilov
Lighting Adaptation for the Mariinsky II: Yegor Kartashov
Musical Preparation: Irina Soboleva
Principal Chorus Master: Konstantin Rylov

CAST:

Conductor: Valery Gergiev

Prologue

Boyar Ivan Semyonovich Sheloga: Dmitry Grigoriev
Vera Dmitrievna, his wife: Irina Churilova
Nadezhda Nasonova, Vera’s sister: Svetlana Karpova
Prince Yuri Ivanovich Tokmakov: Evgeny Cherniadiev
Vlasyevna, Nadezhda’s nurse: Elena Vitman

Opera

Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible: Stanislav Trofimov
Yuriy Ivanovich Tokmakov, the tsar’s deputy: Yuri Vorobiev
Boyar Nikita Matuta: Oleg Balashov
Prince Afanasy Vyazemsky: Yuri Vlasov
Yushko Velebin, courier from Novgorod: Alexander Nikitin
Bomely, the tsar’s physician: Grigory Karasev
Mikhailo Andreyevich Tucha, son of a posadnik: Oleg Videman
Princess Olga Yuryevna Tokmakova: Irina Churilova
Boyaryshnya Stepanida Matuta, Olga’s friend: Ekaterina Krapivina
Vlasyevna, nurse: Elena Vitman
Perfilyevna, nurse: Marina Mareskina
Guard’s voice: Alexei Krotov