Tryouts for lead parts in The Passenger were held on 12 June 2015. The auditions were judged by the opera producers Thaddeus Strassberger and Oliver von Dohnányi.
The part of Marta (soprano) will be performed by Elena Dementieva, Natalia Karlova and Victoria Novikova.
Nadezhda Babintseva, Kseniya Kovalevskaya and Nadezhda Ryzhenkova will appear as Liese, SS overseer (mezzo-soprano).
Yuri Devin, Aleksander Kulga, Aleksei Mironov and Dmitri Starodubov will appear as Tadeusz, Marta’s fiancé (baritone).
The part of diplomat Walter (tenor) will be performed by Ilgam Valiev, Evgeny Kryukov and Vladimir Cheberyak
Other performers will be named later.