Mlada
Act I
Composed by Cesar Cui
Libretto by Viktor Krylov
Date of composition: 1872
First Performed: 1917 (concert performance)
Cast of Characters
- Mstivoi, Ratarian prince: baritone
- Voislava, his daughter: soprano
- Yaromir, Arkonian prince: tenor
- Morena, subterranean goddess in the form of the old woman Sviatokhna:
mezzo-soprano
Hay maidens, armor-bearers, hunters
Setting: Action occurs in Slavic lands in the 9th century
Synopsis
Act I Only
Princess Voislava agrees to become the goddess Morena's slave in order to
win Yaromir from the memory of his late fiancee, Mlada.
(See Rimsky-Korsakov's opera of the same name for the rest of the story.)
Extra Information
Author: Lyle Neff, lneff@ucs.indiana.edu
Last Updated: Dec. 11, 1995