Organization

Conductor

Conductor (+3)

Simone Young

Stage director

Stage director (+4)

Claus Guth

Set designer

Set designer (+4)

Christian Schmidt

Costume designer

Ursula Kudrna

Lighting designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Olaf Freese

Video

Carmen Zimmermann

Video (+1)

Roland Horvath

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+2)

Dani Juris

Bass (+4)

Mika Kares

Prince Ivan Khovansky

Tenor

Najmiddin Mavlyanov

Prince Andrey Khovansky

Tenor (+3)

Stephan Rügamer

Prince Vasiliy Golitsin

Baritone (+5)

Vladislav Sulimsky

Shaklovity

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Marina Prudenskaya

Marfa

Soprano (+3)

Anna Samuil

Susanna

Composer (+4)

Steve Davislim

Scrivener

Soprano (+2)

Evelin Novak

Emma

Baritone (+4)

Arttu Kataja

Pastor

Baritone (+3)

Roman Trekel

Varsonofyev

Andrés Moreno García

Kuzka

Tenor (+2)

Johan Krogius

Streshnev

Baritone (+2)

Taehan Kim

First strelets

Bass (+2)

Friedrich Hamel

Second strelets

Staatsoper Unter den Linden ( State Opera Berlin )

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Dramaturge

Dramaturge (+3)

Yvonne Gebauer

Rebecca Graitl

Taras Shtonda

Dosifey

Baritone (+1)

George Gagnidze

Andrei Popov

Choreographer

Stage director (+5)

Tabatha McFadyen

Regieassistenz und Abendspielleitung

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.

Rúisis

Khovanshchina

Berlin

Germany

Khovanshchina Mussorgsky

Staged

Opera

Gearmáinis

Béarla

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