Prince Igor - Roles

Roles

Role Voice type St. Petersburg premiere,
4 November (23 October O.S.) 1890,
(Conductor: Karl Kuchera)
Moscow premiere,
1892
(Conductor: –)
Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow,
1898
(Conductor: – )
Igor Svyatoslavich, Prince of Novgorod-Seversky baritone Ivan Melnikov Ivan Goncharov Pavel Khokhlov
Yaroslavna, his wife by his second marriage soprano Olga Olgina Yelena Tsvetkova Mariya Deysha-Sionitskaya
Vladimir Igorevich, Igor's son from his first marriage tenor Mikhail Vasilyev Mikhaylov Leonid Sobinov
Vladimir Yaroslavich, Prince of Galich, brother of Princess Yaroslavna bass-baritone Stepan Vlasov
Konchak, Polovtsian khan bass Mikhail Koryakin Aleksandr Antonovsky Stepan Trezvinsky
Gzak, Polovtsian khan bass
Konchakovna, daughter of Khan Konchak contralto Mariya Slavina Azerskaya
Ovlur, a Christian Polovtsian tenor Uspensky
Skula, a gudok-player bass Fyodor Stravinsky Vasiliy Tyutyunnik
Yeroshka, a gudok-player tenor Grigoriy Ugrinovich Konstantin Mikhaylov-Stoyan
Yaroslavna's nurse soprano
A Polovtsian maiden soprano Dolina
Chorus, silent roles: Russian princes and princesses, boyars and boyarynas, elders, Russian warriors, maidens, people. Polovtsian khans, Konchakovna's girlfriends, slaves (chagi) of Khan Konchak, Russian prisoners, Polovtsian sentries

Note:

  • The actual given name of the historical Yaroslavna is Yefrosinya (Russian: Ефросинья, English: Euphrosina). Yaroslavna is a patronymic, meaning "daughter of Yaroslav". Konchakovna's name is similarly derived.
  • Yaroslavna's brother, Vladimir Yaroslavich, is often called "Prince Galitsky" (Russian: Князь Галицкий), leading to the misconception that he was a prince by the name of Galitsky. In fact, he was a son of Prince of Galich Yaroslav Osmomysl. Prince Galitsky is a title meaning "Prince of Galich".

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