May Night (Russian: Майская ночь, Majskaja noch) is a comic opera in three acts, four scenes, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from a libretto by the composer and is based on Nikolai Gogol's story May Night, or the Drowned Maiden, from his collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka.

Librettist Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Based on "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden" by Nikolai Gogol)
Date of composition 1879 (1878-1879)
Premiered 1880, January 21st (Mariinsky Theatre) in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Type Opera
Spoken language Russian
Instruments Orchestra
Voice (Bass) - Village-Head (Mayor)
Voice (Tenor) - Levko, Mayor's son
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Mayor's sister-in-law
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - (Ganna) Hanna
Voice (Bass) - Clerk
Voice (Tenor) - Distiller
Voice (Bass) - Kalenik
Voice (Soprano) - Pannochka, rusalka
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Brood-Hen, rusalka
Voice (Soprano) - Raven, rusalka
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Stepmother, rusalka
Chorus/Choir - Mixed Chorus ; Lads, lasses, village police, rusalki (drowned maidens)
Autotranslations beta Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov: May Night
Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov: May Night
Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow: May Night