The Bolshoi Opera
Modest Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov
A turning point in the history of music, Boris Godunov relates the dramatic fall of Boris Godunov, Czar of All the Russias, from absolute power to madness and death. The libretto, which Mussorgsky wrote in 1869, is based on Pushkin’s verse drama of the same name, while the score incorporates a host of motifs from Russian traditional music.
The Bolshoi Theatre commissioned Alexander Sokurov, the distinguished cinema director and ‘poet of the image’, to undertake this new staging of a work whose previous, much-loved production remained in the Theatre’s repertoire for 48 years. The appointment proved a wise one: as well as magically transporting the audience to 16th-century Russia, the production – especially its magnificent sets and impressive costumes – have earned rave reviews.
Alexander Vedernikov, director and principal conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre, conducts the work as it was originally orchestrated in 1872 [Y.P.].
In Russian with Greek surtitles
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Duration 3 hours and 15 minutes with one intervals.
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- 15/07/2008 at 21:00
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