Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev Stage Director: Alexei Stepanyuk Set Designer: Pyotr Schildknekht Set Revival Director and Costume Designer: Vyacheslav Okunev Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko Musical Preparation: Irina Soboleva Choreographers: Igor Belsky, Georgy Aleksidze
Premiere: 24 December 1871, Opera House, Cairo
Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 1 April 1877, St Petersburg Premiere of this production: 30 December 1998, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Running time: 3 hours 40 minutes The performance has two intervals