The Captain's Daughter (Cui, César)

		Movements/Sections 4 acts, 8 tableaux Composition Year 1907–09 Genre Categories Operas; Stage Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; Russian language

Sheet Music

• Vocal Scores (5)

Vocal Scores

 Cover, title page, characters, contents
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 Act I (Tableaux 1–2)
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 Act II (Tableaux 3–4)
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 Act III (Tableau 5)
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 Act IV (Tableaux 6–8)
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Language:

Russian

Publisher Info.:

Moscow: P. Jurgenson, n.d.(1910). Plates 33840–33859.

Copyright:

Public Domain [tag/del]

Misc. Notes:

Scanned from somewhat fuzzy printouts from microfilm (including scratch marks)

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Act I ( = Tableaux 1-2), piano solo from piano-vocal score:

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General Information

Work Title	The Captain's Daughter
Alternative Title	Капитанская дочка ; Die Hauptmannstochter

Composer	Cui, César
Movements/Sections	4 acts, 8 tableaux
Year/Date of Composition	1907–09
First Performance	1911-02-27 – St. Petersburg, Maryinsky Theatre
First Publication	1910 (vocal score only; full score not yet published)
Librettist	Composer, after Aleksandr Pushkin (1799–1837)
Language	Russian
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	voices with orchestra (piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, tuba, timpani, percussion, strings)

Misc. Comments

Cast

(Missing from character list in the vocal score; see G. B. Bernandt, Словарь опер впервые поставленных или изданных в дореволюционной России и в СССР, 1736-1959 [Dictionary of Operas First Performed or Published in Pre-Revolutionary Russia and in the USSR, 1836-1959]. Москва: Советский композитор, 1962, p.130.)

• Empress Catherine the Great: mezzo-soprano
• Andrey Petrovich Grinyov, a retired major: bass
• Avdotʹya Vasil'yevna [Grinyova], his wife: soprano
• Pyotr Andreyevich, their son: tenor
• Savelʹyich, a servant: baritone
• Dorofey, a proprietor of an inn: tenor
• Potap, a Cossack: bass
• The Guide (Pugachov): baritone
• Ivan Kuzʹmich Mironov, commandant of Belgorodsky fortress: bass
• Vasilisa Egorovna [Mironova], his wife: contralto
• Masha, their daughter: soprano
• Aleksey Ivanovich Shvabrin, an ensign: baritone
• Ivan Ignatʹyevich Zharkov, a lieutenant: tenor
• Maksimych, a sergeant: tenor
• A Corporal: bass
• Chumakov, a song-leader: tenor
• Garrison soldiers, residents, rebels, courtiers: chorus

External Links

• Wikipedia article

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Operas by César Cui
Neuhausen Castle (1859, unfinished) Prisoner of the Caucasus (1857–58, rev. 1881–82, 1885) The Mandarin's Son (1859) William Ratcliff (1861–68) Mlada (1872, Act I only) Angelo (1871–75) Le flibustier (1888–89) The Saracen (1896–98) Feast in Time of Plague (1899~1900?)	Undina (1900–04?, unfinished) Mademoiselle Fifi (1902–03) The Snow Bogatyr (1905) Mateo Falcone (1906–07) The Captain's Daughter (1907–09) Little Red Riding-Hood (1911) Ivan the Fool (1913) Puss-in-Boots (1913)