Organization

Conductor

Balázs Kocsár

Stage director

András Almási-Tóth

Set designer

Sebastian Hannak

Costume designer

Krisztina Lisztopád

Choreographer

Eszter Lázár

Chorus master

Nikolett Hajzer

Gábor Csiki

Singer

Baritone

Gábor Bretz

Boris Godunov

Mezzo-soprano

Laura Topolánszky

Fyodor

Soprano

Andrea Brassói-Jőrös

Kseniya

Bernadett Wiedemann

Kseniya's nurse

Tenor

István Kovácsházi

Prince Vasiliy Ivanovich Shuysky

Zsolt Haja

Andrey Shchelkalov

Bass

András Palerdi

Pimen

Aleksei Kulagin

Varlaam

Tivadar Kiss

Misail

Andrea Szántó

The innkeeper

Zoltán Nyári

Simpleton

Bence Pataki

Police officer in the inn

Boldizsár Zajkás

Mityukha

Hungarian State Opera

Others

Choir of the Hungarian State Opera

Orchestra

Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

Botond Ódor

Grigoriy

Pál Botond

Russian

Budapest

Hungary

Hungarian State Opera House

Boris Godunov Mussorgsky

Public

English

Hungarian

Approved

Opera in four acts with a prologue, in Russian, with Hungarian and English subtitles
One of the most remarkable productions of the OPERA's 2023/24 Slavic Season is Boris Godunov by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. This work of Russian opera, based on Alexander Pushkin's drama of the same title, returns to the Opera House after more than twenty years, and in the light of the recent years' aspirations and the traditions, in its original version. Therefore, it is not in the arrangement and orchestration by Rimsky-Korsakov that many are familiar with and that is most often performed, but in the original Mussorgsky version, which has a much more suspenseful, condensed plot than the other one. Thus, the play focuses even more on the psychological state of the characters: Mussorgsky creates a refined musical portrait of his characters. András Almási-Tóth's production and interpretation mixes historical time with the present, turning the romantic-historical work into a contemporary psychological thriller with elements of horror, where events take place on several timelines simultaneously.

Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky, From (2024/2024), Directed by András Almási-Tóth,, Conductor Balázs Kocsár, Hungarian State Opera House, Budapest, Hungary

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