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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