September 21 1904 (Julian calendar)

Bolshoi Theatre
Moscow, Russia
Rachmaninoff's role
Conductor
Notes
Keldysh (p. 213) provides details of this entirely new production of Glinka's opera, which sought to restore the composer's original work, and quotes numerous and highly laudatory reviews of Rachmaninoff's conducting.
Performers

Chaliapin as Susanin. Nezhdanova as Antonida.

A Life for the Tsar
Glinka