Cui's activities in musical life included also membership on the opera selection committee at the Mariinsky Theatre; this stint ended in 1883, when both he and Rimsky-Korsakov left the committee in protest of its rejection of Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina.
As actividades de Cui na vida musical incluían tamén a pertenza ao comité de selección de ópera no teatro Mariinsky; este período rematou en 1833, cando tanto el como Rimskii-Korsakov abandonaron o comité como protesta ao rexeitamento de Khovanshchina, de Musorgskii.