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BORIS GODUNOW

Modest Mussorgski

Opera

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BORIS GODUNOW

Composer Modest Mussorgski.

Opera in 4 parts (original 1868/69 version)

recommended for 12 years and older

Libretto by the composer after the correspondent drama by Alexander Puschkin and Nikolay Karamzin's History of the Russian State

In Russian with German and English surtitles.

Duration: approx. 2.50 hours - no break

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Child murder, scheming monks and a tsar lapsing into madness – Modest Mussorgsky spread the thematic arc wide in his choral opera, which he began to work on from 1868, and with which he attempted to awaken an awareness of his own time through the indirect route of a historic story. As an artist of the 19th century, he was driven by the psychology of the masses. Thus, in Boris Godunov, alongside the hero of the title, the main role is actually taken primarily by the Russian people, rejoicing, starving, demanding and questioning. "Uncovering the fine features of human nature and the mass of humanity, stubbornly drilling in these unexplored regions and conquering them – this is the mission of the true artist. Onward to new shores!“

Cast

  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester
  • Chorus, extra chorus and children's chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper