Roles
| Role | Voice type | St. Petersburg premiere, 27 November(Old Style) 1842 (Conductor: Albrecht) |
Moscow premiere, 1846 (Conductor: Ivan Iogannis) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Svetozar, Great Prince of Kiev | bass | Sergey Baykov | |
| Lyudmila, his daughter | soprano | Mariya Stepanova | Mariya Stepanova |
| Ruslan, a Kievan knight, Lyudmila’s betrothed | bass | Osip Petrov | Semen Hulak-Artemovsky |
| Ratmir, a Khazar prince | contralto | Anna Petrova-Vorobyova | Anfisa Petrova |
| Farlaf, a Varangian knight | bass | Dominic Tozi | Osip Petrov |
| Gorislava, a captive of Ratmir | soprano | Emiliya Lileyeva | Emiliya Lileyeva |
| Finn, a good sorcerer | tenor | Lev Leonov | Lev Leonov |
| Naina, an evil sorceress | mezzo-soprano | Yelizaveta Rïkalova (Marcel) | |
| Bayan, a bard | tenor | N. Likhansky | |
| Chorus, silent roles: Sons of Svetozar, knights, boyars and boyarïnyas, chamber-maids and nurse-maids, page boys, bodyguards, cupbearers, stolniks, the Prince's armed force, people, maids of the magic castle, blackamoors, dwarves, slaves of Chernomor, nymphs, water-nymphs | |||
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