
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Giacomo Puccini

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Umberto Giordano

Dimitry Rostovsky

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Francesco Cilea
Alexander Ostrovsky, music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Mieczysław Weinberg

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Dmitry Shostakovich

Giuseppe Verdi

Gaetano Donizetti

Dmitry Shostakovich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Richard Strauss

Sergei Banevich

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Hector Berlioz

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
César Cui. Igor Stravinsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Gioacchino Rossini

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Georges Bizet

Gioachino Rossini
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Andrei Rubtsov

Alexei Verstovsky

Georges Bizet

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Anton Rubinstein

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Sergei Prokofiev

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Tatiana Kamysheva

Richard Strauss

The Bolshoi Theatre staging of Boris Godunov is an example of the “grand style” of the 20th century that has been safeguarded until this day. Having referred to “folk musical drama” by Mussorgsky (such definition of genre was given to it by the composer), the creators of the production – conductor Nikolai Golovanov, director Leonid Lavrovsky, designer Fedor Fedorovsky, produced a work of an epic scale. Historically authentic set design and costumes, large dimensions of crowd scenes, detailed psychological examination of images – all of that makes this performance a unique monument of the epoch.
Premiered on October 16, 1948.
Presented with three intervals.
Libretto by Modest Mussorgsky, based on Alexander Pushkin’s play of the same name
Version and orchestration by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Orchestration of “At St. Basil Cathedral” scene by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov




Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Sunday, 14:00
Saturday, 19:00
Friday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Sunday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Tuesday, 19:00
Thursday, 19:00
Wednesday, 19:00
Prologue
Scene 1
A crowd throngs by the high walls of the Novodevichy Monastery in Moscow. The boyar, Boris Godunov, has withdrawn to the monastery after the death of Tsar Fyodor, who did not leave an heir. That Boris will be elected to the throne is a foregone conclusion, but he makes a show of refusing the crown so that he is not suspected of wishing to seize power. At the order of a police officer, the people beg Godunov to accept election to the throne:
“Do not abandon us, Father,
Do not leave us helpness!”
But Shchelkalov, secretary of the Duma, announces that Boris is implacable.