September 3 1904 (Julian calendar)

Moscow, Russia
Bolshoi Theatre
Rusalka
Dargomyzhsky
Rachmaninoff's role
Conductor
Notes
Keldysh (p. 210) notes that while Rachmaninoff was scheduled to have conducted the season-opening performance of Glinka's 'A Life for the Tsar', delays in that production meant that this appearance was Rachmaninoff's first at the Bolshoi Theatre.