Actors:
- SAVEL PROKOFIEVITCH DIKOY, a merchant, important person in the town: Dmitry VOROBIYOV (Honored actor of the Russian Federation) / Sergey LOSEV
- BORIS GRIGORIEVITCH, his nephew, a young man of good education: Alexander KUZNETSOV (soloist of the opera troupe of the Mikhailovsky Theatre) / Petr ZAKHAROV (soloist of the Petersburg-Concert philharmonic)
- MARFA IGNATIEVNA KABANOVA (Kabanikha), a rich merchant widow: People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Marina IGNATOVA
- TIKHON IVANITCH KABANOV, her son: Alexey VINNIKOV / Dmitry MURASHEV
- KATERINA, his wife: Victoria ATRIUKHOVA
- VARVARA, Tikhon’s sister: Nina ALEXANDROVA / Varvara PAVLOVA
- KULIGIN, a man of the artisan class, a self-taught watchmaker, engaged in trying to discover the secret of perpetual motion: Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Anatoly PETROV
- VANIA KUDRIASH, a young man, Dikoy’s clerk: Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Vasiliy REUTOV
- SHAPKIN, an artisan: Victor KNYAZHEV / Dmitry MURASHEV
- FEKLUSHA, a pilgrim woman: Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Maria LAVROVA
- GLASHA, a maidservant in the Kabanov house: Alyona KUCHKOVA / Glaphira LAVROVA
- BARYN’YA, an old lady of seventy, half mad: People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Irute VENGALITE
- BEGGAR: Diana SHISHLYAEVA
- TOWNSPEOPLE OF BOTH SEXES, SWALLOWS: Victor KNYAZHEV / Egor MEDVEDEV, Evgeniy SLAVSKY, Olga VANKOVA
Orchestra of the BDT:
Vera IONOVA (piano), Alekszandr ZAHARENKO / Alexander ZAKHARENKO (clarinet), Nyikolaj RIBAKOV / Nikolay RYBAKOV / Jurij ANDREJEV / Yury ANDREEV (bass-drum)
Stage designer: Vera Martynov
Costume designer: Svetlana Gribanova
Composer: Alexander Manotskov
Playwright: Alexander Ostrovsky
Lighting designer-Stas Svistunovich
Director’s assistants-Alexander Artyomov,
Svetlana Shchagina
Sound director-Alexey Titov
Musical director-Anna Vishnyakova
Stunt directors-Maxim Pakhomov, Roman Kaganovich