The opera Lolita was commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich [REF].
The premiere of a German version in a translation of Ariane Csonka Comstock[REF] was given on 30 April 2011 at the opening night of the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden in a production of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, in the presence of the composer and his wife, Maya Plisetskaya [REF].