A life for the Tsar
opera in four acts with an epilogue
Music by Mikhail Glinka
Libretto by Yegor Rosen
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Stage Director and Set Designer: Dmitri Tcherniakov
Costume Designers: Dmitri Tcherniakov, Olga Lukina
Choreographer: Sergei Vikharev
Lighting Designer: Gleb Filshtinsky
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko
Musical Preparation: Natalia Mordashova
Production sponsored by the Stiftung der Freunde des Mariinsky Theaters (Germany)
World premiere: 9 December 1836, Bolshoi Theatre, St Petersburg
Premiere of this production: 30 May 2004, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
