Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alexei Verstovsky
Giuseppe Verdi
Mieczysław Weinberg
Richard Strauss
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Modest Mussorgsky
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Gioacchino Rossini
Hector Berlioz
Anton Rubinstein
Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann
Gaetano Donizetti
Richard Wagner
Jacques Offenbach
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Dimitry Rostovsky
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dmitry Shostakovich
Tatiana Kamysheva
Dmitry Shostakovich
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Georg Philipp Telemann
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Georges Bizet
Giuseppe Verdi
Giacomo Puccini
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Igor Stravinsky
Giuseppe Verdi
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Mikhail Glinka
Gioachino Rossini
Sergei Banevich
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Umberto Giordano
Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel
Andrei Rubtsov
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Richard Strauss
Giacomo Puccini
Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns
Alexander Borodin
Georges Bizet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sergei Prokofiev
Francesco Cilea
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pyotr Tchaikovsky
The production premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre on 3 October 1954. Revival: 8 December 2001.
Рremiered at the Bolshoi Theatre on 15 September 2024.
The performance has two intervals.
Libretto by the composer based on Old Russian epos The Tale of Igor´s Raid
Polovtsian Dances choreography by Michel Fokine (1909)
Set and costumes provided by the Mariinsky Theatre
Tuesday, 19:00
Monday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 19:00
Sunday, 12:00
Act I
Scene One
Prologue
A square in an ancient Russian city of Putivl
Prince Igor, together with his son Vladimir and his army of warriors, is getting ready for a campaign against the nomadic Polovtsians who are launching devastating attacks on Russia’s lands. The people greet Igor and the warriors and wish them victory.
Suddenly it gets dark — a solar eclipse begins. The people, the princes and the boyars regard this as an ill omen, an inauspicious sign, and advise Igor to put off the campaign. The Prince’s wife Yaroslavna also implores him to stay at home. But Prince Igor is unbending. He is certain that his cause is just — he will defend Russia.