May Night (Russian: Майская ночь, romanized: Mayskaya noch listenⓘ) is a comic opera in three acts, four scenes, by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov from a libretto by the composer and is based on Nikolai Gogol's story "May Night, or the Drowned Maiden", from his collection Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (1829-1832).

In 1892 in Moscow, the Russian Private Opera's performance at the Shelaputin's Theatre was conducted by Iosif Pribik.

In stumbles the drunken Kalenik on his way home; he tries dance the hopak and to kiss the girls, but they send him away to the Mayor's house, tricking him into thinking that it's his own.

Levko calls the village lads together and teaches them a song to mock the Mayor and use in playing a trick on him.

In superstitious alarm the Distiller warns the Mayor against such language, relating the story of his late mother-in-law and the ghost that haunted her because of her cursing at him in life.

The wind blows out the lights, and in the commotion the Mayor captures someone he thinks is the perpetrator, and locks "him" up in a side room.

With the police afraid to proceed, the Mayor threatens them with the wrath of the commissar, and they run off in obedience.

Shore of the lake near the old gentleman's house; luminous moonlit night Beside the pond, Levko sings to his absent beloved, then asks the moon to shine its light on the path to her abode.

But the second player of that role – the stepmother – exposes her true self; Levko points her out, and the other rusalki jump on her and drag her down to the depths of the pond.

In gratitude, Pannochka gives Levko a letter to show to his father, and disappears as dawn breaks.

Levko and Hanna say a prayer for Pannochka, Kalenik stumbles in again, and the Sister-in-Law gives the Mayor another verbal brow-beating, as the people celebrate.