Majskaja noch'
Die Mainacht; La nuit de mai; May Night
A comic-fantastic opera in three acts
by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, libretto based on
Gogol's story
Date of composition: 1878-1879
First Performed: 1880
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libretto
Go to English translation of Gogol's original story
Cast of Characters
- The Mayor: bass
- Levko, his son: tenor
- Sister-in-law of the Mayor: mezzo-soprano
- Hanna (=Galya): mezzo-soprano
- The Clerk: bass
- The Distiller: tenor
- Kalenik: bass
Rusalki (water-nymphs):
- Pannochka: soprano
- The Brood-Hen: mezzo-soprano
- The Raven: soprano
- Stepmother: mezzo-soprano
Lads, lasses, village police, drowned maidens (rusaliki)
Setting: Action takes place in Little Russia, near Dikanka, at
Whitsuntide or "Rusalka week". Time: beginning of the 19th century.
Synopsis
Act I
Act II
Act III
Extra Information
Author: Lyle Neff, lneff@ucs.indiana.edu
Last Updated: June 1995