The Tsar's Bride (Russian: Царская невеста, Tsarskaya nevesta) is an opera in four acts by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the composer's tenth opera. The libretto, by Ilia Tyumenev, is based on the drama of the same name by Lev Mey. Mey's play was first suggested to the composer as an opera subject in 1868 by Mily Balakirev. (Alexander Borodin, too, once toyed with the idea.) However, the opera was not composed until thirty years later, in 1898. The first performance of the opera took place in 1899 at the Moscow theater of the Private Opera of S.I. Mamontov.

Librettist Ilia Tyumenev (Based on the drama "The Tsar's Bride" by Lev Mey)
Date of composition 1898
Premiered 1899 (Private Opera Society) in Moscow, Russia
Type Opera
Approx. duration 150 minutes
Spoken language Russian
Instruments Voice (Bass) - Vasily Stepanovich Sobakin, Novgorodian merchant
Voice (Soprano) - Marfa, Sobakin's daughter
Voice (Baritone) - Grigory Gryaznoy, an oprichnik
Voice (Bass) - Malyuta Skuratov, an oprichnik
Voice (Tenor) - Boyar Ivan Sergeyevich Lïkov
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Lyubasha
Voice (Tenor) - Yelisey Bomeliy, the Tsar's physician
Voice (Soprano) - Domna Ivanovna Saburova, a merchant woman
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Dunyasha, Saburova's daughter, Marfa's girlfriend
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Petrovna, the Sobakins' housekeeper
Voice (Bass) - The Tsar's stoker
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - A maiden
Voice (Tenor) - A young lad
Chorus/Choir - Two distinguished horsemen, riders, oprichniki, male and female choristers, dancers, boyars and boyarïnyas, maidens, servants, people.
Orchestra
Autotranslations beta Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride
Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov: The Tsar's Bride
Nikolai Andrejewitsch Rimski-Korsakow: The Tsar's Bride