Historic Stage
24 February, 19:00

Premiere of this production: 31 December 2008.
Premiere of the new stage version production: 7 January 2021.

The performance has one interval.
Running time: 2 hours 50 minutes.
Libretto by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Lighting Designer: Gleb Filshtinsky
Video Designer: Viktoria Zlotnikova
Principal Chorus Master: Konstantin Rylov

The performance features the set design of the 2008 production (Stage Director: Olga Malikova, Scenography: Xenia Pantina, Costume Designer: Varvara Evchuk)

CAST:

Conductor: Valery Gergiev
Chub, an elderly Cossack: Stansilav Trofimov
Oksana, his daughter:
Village-head: Alexander Nikitin
Solokha, a widow: Yulia Matochkina
Vakula the smith, her son: Mikhail Vekua
Panas, a crony of Chub: Vitaly Yankovsky
Deacon Osip Nikiforovich: Evgany Akimov
Patsyuk, an old Zaporozhets, a sorcerer: Gleb Peryazev
Devil: Andrei Zorin
Tsaritsa: Irina Vaneyeva
Women with a purple nose: Marina Mareskina
Women with an ordinary nose: Kira Loginova