Organization

Direttore d'orchestra

Direttore d'orchestra (+3)

Simone Young

Regia

Regia (+4)

Claus Guth

Scenografia

Scenografia (+4)

Christian Schmidt

Costumi

Ursula Kudrna

Luci

Luci (+1)

Olaf Freese

Video

Carmen Zimmermann

Video (+1)

Roland Horvath

Direzione del coro

Direzione del coro (+2)

Dani Juris

Basso (+4)

Mika Kares

Il Principe Ivan Chovanskij

Tenore

Najmiddin Mavlyanov

Il Principe Andrej Chovanskij

Tenore (+3)

Stephan Rügamer

Il Principe Vasilij Golicyn

Baritono (+5)

Vladislav Sulimsky

Fëdor Šaklovityj

Mezzosoprano (+4)

Marina Prudenskaya

Marfa

Soprano (+3)

Anna Samuil

Susanna

Compositore (+4)

Steve Davislim

Scrivano

Soprano (+2)

Evelin Novak

Emma

Baritono (+4)

Arttu Kataja

Pastore

Baritono (+3)

Roman Trekel

Varsonofev

Andrés Moreno García

Kuz'ka

Tenore (+2)

Johan Krogius

Strešnev

Baritono (+2)

Taehan Kim

Primo strelec

Basso (+2)

Friedrich Hamel

Secondo strelec

State Opera Berlin

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Drammaturgo

Drammaturgo (+3)

Yvonne Gebauer

Rebecca Graitl

Taras Shtonda

Dosifej

Baritono (+1)

George Gagnidze

Andrei Popov

Coreografia

Regia (+5)

Tabatha McFadyen

Assistente Alla Regia E Direttore Di Scena Serale

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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