Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Direction d'orchestre (+3)

Simone Young

Mise en scène

Mise en scène (+4)

Claus Guth

Décors

Décors (+4)

Christian Schmidt

Costumes

Ursula Kudrna

Lumières

Lumières (+1)

Olaf Freese

Video

Carmen Zimmermann

Video (+1)

Roland Horvath

Direction de choeur

Direction de choeur (+2)

Dani Juris

Basse (+4)

Mika Kares

Prince Ivan Khovansky

Ténor

Najmiddin Mavlyanov

Prince Andreï Khovansky

Ténor (+3)

Stephan Rügamer

Prince Vasili Golitsin

Baryton (+5)

Vladislav Sulimsky

Shaklovity

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Marina Prudenskaya

Marfa

Soprano (+3)

Anna Samuil

Susanna

Compositeur (+4)

Steve Davislim

Scribe

Soprano (+2)

Evelin Novak

Emma

Baryton (+4)

Arttu Kataja

Pasteur

Baryton (+3)

Roman Trekel

Varsonofiev

Andrés Moreno García

Kuzka

Ténor (+2)

Johan Krogius

Streshnev

Baryton (+2)

Taehan Kim

Premier strelets

Basse (+2)

Friedrich Hamel

Deuxième strelets

State Opera Berlin

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+3)

Yvonne Gebauer

Rebecca Graitl

Taras Shtonda

Dosifey

Baryton (+1)

George Gagnidze

Andrey Popov

Chorégraphie

Mise en scène (+5)

Tabatha McFadyen

Assistant Metteur En Scène Et Directeur De Soirée

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

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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