Name: Boris Godunov
Start: 2022-08-04T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-10-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre

Organization

Conductor

Valery Gergiev

Singer

Baritone

Сергей Севастьянов

Boris Godunov

Bass

Sergei Pleshivtsev

Pimen

Tenor

Alexei Kostyuk

Prince Vasiliy Ivanovich Shuysky

Anatoly Badayev

Varlaam

Ildar Abdrazakov

Stanislav Trofimov

Sergei Semishkur

The pretender

Yevgeny Akimov

Andrei Serov

Waleriy Trubin-Leonoff

Yevgeny Plekhanov

Mergen Sandanov

Alexei Smirnov

Musical director

Stage director

Sergei Bogoslavskiy

Video designer

Pyotr Okunev

Chorus master

Larisa Shveikovskaya

Pianist

Irina Soboleva

Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre

Roman Krukovich

Russian

Vladivostok

Russia

Public

English

Approved

To enjoy Boris Godunov by one’s own eyes is a dream of any opera lover. The pangs of conscience and mental turmoil of the sinful tsar hallucinating with “blooded boys”, in the brilliant musical incarnation by Modest Musorgsky, can excite the audience much deeper than any Hollywood thriller. Along with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, Boris Godunov has become the most performed Russian opera in the world.

This masterpiece comes in a dozen various versions. On the Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, the opera is presented in its first version (1869), which reflects the composer’s initial conception most closely. It is devoid of the love line with Marina Mniszech, the Polish act with dances and the Kromy civilian revolt scene. In this version, the focus is placed on the main character: the opera begins with the decision to crown Boris Godunov and ends with his death.

The stage version of the opera is based on Andrei Tarkovsky’s legendary 1983 London production, his only opera directing experience. Since 1990, upon initiative of Valery Gergiev, it has been staged at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. The opera was transferred and adapted to the Primorsky Stage by Sergei Bogoslavsky, who has supplemented the production with video projections by Pyotr Okunev. This version was first performed in the summer of 2022 at the VII International Mariinsky Far East Festival; maestro Gergiev took the conductor’s stand, and Ildar Abdrazakov, the top Russian bass among the whole generation, performed the part of Boris Godunov. Now the opera is successfully presented by the Primorsky Stage soloists.

Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky, From (2022/2022), Directed by Sergei Bogoslavskiy,, Conductor Valery Gergiev, Waleriy Trubin-Leonoff, Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Vladivostok, Russia

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