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The Coronation Scene from Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov in Rimsky-Korsakov's Edition | A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives | Articles and Essays | The Moldenhauer Archives - The Rosaleen Moldenhauer Memorial | Digital Collections | Library of Congress.
The Novodevichiy and Coronation scenes were combined into one continuous scene: 'The Call of Boris to the Tsardom'. Matvey Shishkov's design for the last scene of Pushkin's drama, 'The House of Boris' (see illustration, right), was substituted for this hybrid of the Novodevichiy and Coronation scenes. [38]
- Russian
- 27 January 1874, Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg
- Mussorgsky
Cast. Boris Godunov (baritone or bass) Fyodor, his son (mezzo-soprano) Xenia, Boris's daughter (soprano) Xenia's nurse (contralto) Prince Vasiliy Ivanovich Shuysky (tenor) Andrey Shchelkalov, Clerk of the Duma (baritone) Pimen, chronicler-hermit (bass) Grigoriy the Pretender, in training with Pimen (tenor)
The famous "Coronation Scene" (Scene Two) presents a triumphant Boris emerging into the magnificent Cathedral Square, inside the Kremlin walls. The cathedral bells peal raucously, and the people glorify their new tsar by comparing him to the radiant sun.
