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Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, romanized:Borís Godunóvlisten ⓘ) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Conductor: Valery GergievBoris Godunov: Yevgeny Nikitin Shuisky: Yevgeny Akimov Pimen: Mikhail Kit Grigori: Sergei Semishkur Simpleton: Andrei Popov Andrei S...
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BORIS GODUNOV - Nesterenko, Arkhipova - Bolshoi, 1978, English subtitles, Годунов, Большой. This epic opera based on Pushkin's play is notoriously difficult to stage in the West. Powerful music is inseparable from as powerful classic Russian, language carrying the same load as notes.
Modest Mussorgsky (1839–81) was a Russian composer famous for seeking an authentic national voice in his music. He is chiefly remembered for this opera and the unfinished Khovanshchina , the tone poem Night on Bald Mountain , the piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition , and a number of songs.
Oct 9, 2021 · Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia, kicking off the Live in HD season on October 9, 2021. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version.
New York, NY (September 21, 2021) —For the first time, the Metropolitan Opera presents the original 1869 version of Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, which runs two-and-a-quarter hours without intermission, with six performances conducted by Sebastian Wiegle beginning September 28.
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Dec 9, 2003 · Modest Mussorgsky. Boris Godunov. An Opera in Four Acts and a Prologue. Performance History. Composing to his own libretto after Pushkin's "comedy" on the same subject and after Karamzin's History of the Russian Empire, Mussogsky completed Boris Godunov in 1868/9. It contained these scenes: The courtyard of the Novodievichy monastery.
