Incidental Music

Tchaikovsky wrote nine scores to accompany theatrical productions (both amateur and professional).

TH	ČW	Opus	Title	Description	Year
15	423	—	Boris Godunov	Music for the Fountain Scene in Pushkin's tragedy	1863–65 (?)
16	17	—	Dmitry the Pretender and Vasily Shuysky	Introduction and Mazurka for Aleksandr Ostrovsky's dramatic chronicle	1867 (?)
17	424	—	The Tangle	Recitatives and music to a couplet for Pavel Fyodorov's vaudeville	1867
18	19	—	The Barber of Seville	Music for Count Almaviva's couplets in Beaumarchais' comedy	1872
19	15	12	The Snow Maiden	Music for Aleksandr Ostrovsky's spring legend	1873
20	425	—	La Fée	Cradle song and Waltz for Octave Feuillet's comedy	1879 (?)
21	426	—	Montenegro	Music for a tableau vivant	1880
22	20	—	The Voyevoda	Melodrama for the Domovoy's monologue in Aleksandr Ostrovsky's comedy	1886
23	16	67b	Hamlet	Music for Shakespeare's tragedy	1891

In 1868, Tchaikovsky also provided additional recitatives and an introductory chorus to Auber's opera Le Domino noir.