Boris Godunov (opera)

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English: Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was composed between 1868 and 1872, in St. Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece.
Italiano: Boris Godunov, in russo Борис Годунов, è un opera lirica di Modest Musorgskij, su libretto proprio, basato sul dramma omonimo di Aleksàndr Sergeevič Puškin e sulla Storia dello Stato Russo di Nikolai Karamzin. E' la sola opera lirica completata da Musorgskij ed è considerata il suo capolavoro; oltre ad essere una pietra miliare della scuola russa ottocentesca, influenzerà in maniera non indifferente la musica europea di gran parte del Novecento.

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[edit] Authors

Modest Mussorgsky in 1870

Aleksandr Pushkin in 1827

Nikolai Karamzin

Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov

[edit] Scenes

Bocharov design for Cathedral Square scene

Shishkov design for the Inn scene

Shishov design for the Marina's Boudoir scene

Shishkov design for the Night Garden Fountain scene

Shishkov design for the Palace of Facets scene

[edit] Singers and conductors

Ivan A. Melnikov (1832-1906), the first zar Boris (1874)

Fyodor Komissarshevskiy (1832-1905), the first Pretender (1873)

Feodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov (1912)

Feodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov (1913)

Feodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov (1916)

Yuliya Platonova, the first Marina Mniszek (1873)

Gennady Kondratyev and Osip Petrov, the first Misail and Varlaam (1873)

Eduard Napravnik (1839-1916), the first conductor (1874)

Eduard Napravnik

[edit] Historical paintings

Boris Godunov

Basil IV

False Dmitriy I

Marina Mniszek

[edit] Places

St. Basils Cathedral (Act IV, Scene 1, vers. 1869)

Terem Palace, Moscow Kremlin (Act I, Scene 1, vers. 1872)

Cathedral Square, Moscow Kremlin (Act I, Scene 2, vers. 1872)

Chudov Monastery, Moscow Kremlin (Act II, Scene 1, vers. 1872)

Sandomir Castle, Poland (Act III, Scene 1 and 2, vers. 1872)

Palace of Facets, Moscow Kremlin (Act IV, Scene 1, vers. 1872)
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