Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast Moscow, 7 January 1898 |
Premiere cast St. Petersburg, 26 January 1901 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foma Nazarich, doyen, elder of Novgorod | tenor | ||
| Luka Zinovich, governor, elder of Novgorod | bass | Vladimir Mayboroda | |
| Sadko, gusli-player and singer in Novgorod | tenor | Anton Sekar-Rozhansky | Aleksandr Davïdov |
| Lyubava Buslayevna, his young wife | mezzo-soprano | Aleksandra Rostovtseva | Nina Fride |
| Nezhata, young gusli-player from Kiev | contralto | Varvara Strakhova | Mariya Dolina |
| Duda, skomorokh | bass | Aleksandr Brevi | |
| Sopel, skomorokh | tenor | ||
| The Varangian, overseas guest | bass | I. Aleksanov | Aleksandr Antonovsky |
| The Indian, overseas guest | tenor | Yekab Karklin | Mitrofan Chuprïnnikov |
| The Venetian, overseas guest | baritone | I. Petrov | Aleksandr Smirnov |
| Ocean-Sea, the Sea King | bass | Anton Bedlevich | Konstantin Serebryakov |
| Volkhova, the beautiful princess; his youngest, favorite daughter | soprano | Emilia Negrin-Shmidt (Schmidt) | Adelaida Bolska |
| The Apparition, a mythic mighty warrior in the guise of a pilgrim | baritone | ||
| Chorus, silent roles: Merchants of Novgorod, wandering minstrels, sailors, maidens, inhabitants of the undersea kingdom, people | |||
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