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The Snow Maiden-29 June 2000 Evening 7.00pm

Opera: Performance details

Company: The Kirov Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Visiting company
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Cast
Father Frost Ildar Abdrazakov
Beautiful Spring
his wife 		Nadezhda Serdiuk
The snow maiden
their daughter 		Olga Trifonova
A Wood Sprite Oleg Balashov
The Shrovetide straw-dummy Ilya Bannik
Bobil-Bakula
'poor peasant Bakula' 		Nikolai Gassiev
Bobilikha
his wife 		Olga Savova
Lehl
a shepherd 		Ekaterina Semenchuk
Kupava
a young maiden, daughter of a wealthy villager 		Tatiana Borodina
Mizgir
a visiting trader from the Berendai settlement 		Vladimir Moroz
Tsar Berendai Daniil Shtoda
Bermyata
a boyar in attendance 		Mikhail Petrenko
1st herald Yevgeny Nikitin
2nd herald Yevgeny Strashko
Young boy Nadezhda Serdiuk
Peasants, Spring's retinue, cranes, geese, ducks, rooks, magpies, starlings, skylarks, boyars, followers of the Tsar, blind bards, minstrels, fiddlers, pipers, shepherds, forest sprites, flowers Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
Language: Russian
Durations: Prologue, Acts I and II: 100 minutes, Interval: 25 minutes, Acts III and IV: 60 minutes
Information source: The Kirov Opera cast sheet for 29 June 2000 (in Royal Opera House Collections)

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