Premiered on April 9, 1968.
Presented with two intervals.
Running time: 3 hours 20 minutes.
Libretto by Yuri Grigorovich
after the novel of the same name by Raffaello Giovagnolli,
ideas from the scenario by Nikolai Volkov used
Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich
Designer: Simon Virsaladze
Music Director: Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
 Alexander Volchkov as Crasus. Photo by Andrei Melanyin. |  Ivan Vasiliev as Spartacus. Photo by Yelena Fetisova. |  Yegor Khromushin as Spartacus. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Dmitry Belogolovtsev as Spartacus. Photo by Nadezhda Bausova. |  Yegor Khromushin as Spartacus. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Svetlana Lunkina as Phrygia. Photo by Andrei Melanyin. |  Svetlana Lunkina as Phrygia. Yuri Klevtsov as Spartacus. Photo by Andrei Melanyin. |  Nadezhda Gracheva as Aegina. Photo by Nadezhda Bausova. |  Nadezhda Gracheva as Aegina. Photo by Andrei Melanyin. |  Yekaterina Krysanova as Aegina. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Maria Allash as Aegina. Photo by Nadezhda Bausova. |  Maria Alexandrova as Aegina. Photo by Nadezhda Bausova. |  Galina Stepanenko as Aegina. Photo by Nadezhda Bausova. |  Yekaterina Krysanova as Aegina. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Vladimir Neporozhny as Crasus. Nadezhda Gracheva as Aegina. Photo by Andrei Melanyin. |  Yekaterina Krysanova as Aegina. Andrei Merkuriev as Crasus. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Yekaterina Krysanova as Aegina. Andrei Merkuriev as Crasus. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Andrei Merkuriev as Crasus. Photo by Damir Yusupov. |  Alexander Volchkov as Crasus. Photo by Andrei Melanyin. |  Denis Matvienko as Spartacus. Photo by Andrei Melanyin. |  Anna Antonicheva as Phrygia. Photo by Nadezhda Bausova. |  Anna Antonicheva as Phrygia. Denis Matvienko as Spartacus. Photo by Andrei Melanyin. |
