Roles
| Role | Voice type | Moscow premiere, 29 May 1879 (Conductor: Nikolai Rubinstein) |
Bolshoi Theatre premiere, 23 January 1881 (Conductor: Eduard Nápravník) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Larina, lady of the manor | mezzo-soprano | ||
| Tatyana, her daughter | soprano | Mariya Klimentova | Yelena Verni |
| Olga, Tatyana's sister | contralto | Aleksandra Levitskaya | Aleksandra Krutikova |
| Filippyevna, a nanny | mezzo-soprano | ||
| Lensky | tenor | Mikhail Medvedyev | Dmitriy Usatov |
| Yevgeny Onyegin | baritone | Sergey Gilyov | Pavel Khokhlov |
| Prince Gremin, | bass | Vasiliy Makhalov | Abram Abramov |
| Company Commander | bass | ||
| Zaretsky | bass | ||
| Triquet, a Frenchman | tenor | ||
| Guillot, Onegin's valet | silent | ||
| Chorus, silent roles: Peasants, peasant women, ballroom guests, landowners and ladies of the manor, officers. | |||
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