Organization

Dirigent

Dirigent (+3)

Simone Young

Regie

Regie (+4)

Claus Guth

Bühnenbild

Bühnenbild (+4)

Christian Schmidt

Kostümbild

Ursula Kudrna

Lichtgestaltung

Lichtgestaltung (+1)

Olaf Freese

Video

Carmen Zimmermann

Video (+1)

Roland Horvath

Chordirektion

Chordirektion (+2)

Dani Juris

Bass (+4)

Mika Kares

Fürst Iwan Chowanskij

Tenor

Najmiddin Mavlyanov

Fürst Andrej Khovansky

Tenor (+3)

Stephan Rügamer

Prinz Wassili Golitzyn

Bariton (+5)

Vladislav Sulimsky

Schaklowity

Mezzosopran (+4)

Marina Prudenskaya

Marfa

Sopran (+3)

Anna Samuil

Susanna

Komposition (+4)

Steve Davislim

Schreiber

Sopran (+2)

Evelin Novak

Emma

Bariton (+4)

Arttu Kataja

Ein Schafhirte

Bariton (+3)

Roman Trekel

Varsonofev

Andrés Moreno García

Kuz'ka

Tenor (+2)

Johan Krogius

Strešnev

Bariton (+2)

Taehan Kim

Erster Strelitze

Bass (+2)

Friedrich Hamel

Zweiter Strelitze

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Dramaturg

Dramaturg (+3)

Yvonne Gebauer

Rebecca Graitl

Taras Shtonda

Dossifei

Bariton (+1)

George Gagnidze

Andrei Popov

Choreographie

Regie (+5)

Tabatha McFadyen

Regieassistenz Und Abendspielleitung

Chorus

Staatsopernchor Berlin

Kinderchor der Staatsoper Berlin

Modest Mussorgsky’s national folk drama centres on a grim episode of late 17th-century Russian history. Ivan Khovansky, leader of the musketeer corps (streltsy), and his son Andrei, are planning a conspiracy, but the ambitious Prince Vasily Golitsyn, the boyar Shaklovity and cleric Dosifey also get involved in the struggle for power.

While still working on »Boris Godunow«, the composer Modest Mussorgsky began to think about a new opera project in 1872. Inspired by the writer Vladimir  Stasov, he began to read intensively about the circumstances of the Streltsy Uprising against Tsar Peter I and Sofia Alekseyevna. »I revel in collecting material, my head glows like a kettle that is constantly being replenished,« Mussorgsky wrote to his librettist Stasov. In many places, the composer deviated from historical accuracy to create new dramaturgical connections and contrast the political drama with the sphere of personal, amorous entanglements.
Mussorgsky was unable to complete the score before his death in 1881. Owing to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s intervention, who not only orchestrated the work but also deleted or thoroughly reworked large sections, »Khovanshchina« was performed years later. It was not until the early 1930s that a piano version of the original score was published, which also formed the basis for the newly-instrumented version of Claus Guth’s production under the musical direction of Vladimir Jurowski.

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