A Life for the Tsar

Libretto by Yegor Rosen

Musical Director and Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Stage Director and Set Designer: Dmitri Tcherniakov
Costume Designers: Dmitri Tcherniakov, Olga Lukina 
Lighting Designer: Gleb Filshtinsky 
Ballet Master: Sergei Vikharev
Chief Chorus Master: Konstantin Rylov

CAST:

Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Ivan Susanin: Stanislav Trofimov
Antonida, his daughter: Anna Denisova
Bogdan Sobinin, Antonida's fiance: Sergei Skorokhodov
Vanya, Susanin's adopted son: Ekaterina Sergeeva
Commander of the Russian Detachment/
Commander of the Polish Detachment: Vitaly Yankovsky
A Polish courier: Mikhail Makarov
Solo in chorus: Fyodor Uvarov

DANCES:

Krakowiak: Evgeny Alimpiev, Miroslav Arbatov
Waltz: Maria Bulanova, Anton Osetrov
Mazurka: Mariinsky Theatre ballet artists, Boris Eifman Dance Academy students