Roles
| Role | Voice type | St. Petersburg premiere, 19 December 1890 (Conductor: Eduard Nápravník) |
Kiev premiere, 31 December 1890 (Conductor: Iosif Pribik) |
Bolshoy Theatre, Moscow premiere, 4 November 1891 (Conductor: Ippolit Al'tani) |
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| Herman | tenor | Nikolay Figner | Mikhail Medvedev | Mikhail Medvedev |
| Count Tomsky | baritone | Ivan Melnikov | Dementyev | Bogomir Korsov |
| Prince Yeletsky | baritone | Yakovlev | Tartakov | Pavel Khokhlov |
| Chekalinsky | tenor | Vasilyev II | ||
| Surin | bass | Frey | ||
| Chaplitsky | tenor | Kondraki | ||
| Narumov | bass | Sobolev | ||
| Master of Ceremonies | tenor | Yefimov | ||
| Countess | mezzo-soprano | Mariya Slavina | Mariya Smirnova | Aleksandra Krutikova |
| Liza | soprano | Medea Mei-Figner | Aleksandra Matsulevich | Mariya Deysha-Sionitskaya |
| Polina | contralto | Mariya Dolina | Gnucheva | |
| Governess | mezzo-soprano | Maria-Wilhelmina Pilz (Pilts) | ||
| Masha | soprano | Yunosova | ||
| Boy-Commander | spoken | |||
| Prilepa | soprano | Olga Olgina | ||
| Milovzor | contralto | Fride (Friede) | ||
| Zlatogor | baritone | Klimov II | ||
| Chorus, silent roles: Nursemaids, governesses, wet-nurses, strollers, children, gamblers | ||||
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| Prilepa, or Chlöe | soprano | |||
| Milovzor, or Daphnis | contralto | |||
| Zlatogor, or Plutus | baritone | |||
| Chorus, silent roles: Cupid, Hymen, shepherds and shepherdesses | ||||
Note: The contralto roles of Milovzor and Polina and the baritone roles of Zlatogor and Tomsky can be performed by the same singers. Prilepa has occasionally been double cast with Liza.
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