Performance

Venue	Royal Opera House
	Other spaces: Linbury Studio, Ballet Studio, Clore Studio,Floral Hall
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	22nd September 2003
To	9th October 2003
When	Sep 22, 25, Oct 3, 7, 9 18:30. Sep 27 18:00. Oct 5 15:00
Prices	From £6.00. To £145.00.
What is currently on at Royal Opera House (V377)

Boris Godunov

T1146056102
Based on Pushkin's The Comedy of the Distress of the Muscovite State, of Tsar Boris and of Grishka Otrepiev - there are several version developed by Mussorsky over a number of years. Set in Russia and Poland between 1598 and 1605. Boris is 'persuaded' to accept the crown after murdering the true heir. A young monk pretends to be the murdered heir in order to avenge the death and there is a swell amongst the people in his favour. In the end Boris dies.

Author

Mussorsky

Archive :: production:T1146056102, opera or operetta:S1878, venue:V377

Production details

Sung in Russian with English surtitles. Approx. running time 3 hours 51 minutes.

Reviews

No UKTW or User reviews available.

Company

Producer	Royal Opera
Director	Andrei Tarkovsky (original)
Director	Irina Brown (revival)
Design	Nicolas Dvigoubsky
Lighting	Robert Bryan
Choreographer	Romayne Grigorova
Conductor	Semyon Bychkov
Performer	John Tomlinson (Boris Godunov)
Performer	Sergei Larin (Grigory Otrepiev / The Pretender Dmitry)
Performer	Vladimir Vaneev (Pimen)
Performer	Andrej Breus (Shchelkalov)
Performer	Vladimir Matorin (Varlaam)
Performer	Olga Borodina (Marina)
Performer	Sergei Leiferkus (Rangoni)
Performer	Tove Dahlberg (Fyodor)
Performer	Ailish Tynan (Xenia)
Performer	Ekaterina Gubanova (Hostess at the Inn)
Performer	Hubert Delamboye (Prince Shuisky)
Performer	Vyacheslav Voinerovsky (Missail)
Performer	Brindley Sherratt (Nikitich / Frontier Guard)
Performer	Toby Spence (Simpleton)
Performer	Adrian Clarke (Mityukha)
Performer	Frances McCafferty (Xenia's Nurse)

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