Boris Godunow - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Boris Godunow
Version of 1869 ("Ur-Boris")
Opera in four parts / seven pictures
Libretto by Modest P. Mussorgsky on Alexander Pushkin's drama
as well as Nikolai Karamsin's "History of the Russian Empire"
World premiere of the version of 1874 on February 8, 1874 in St. Petersburg
World premiere of the version of 1869 on March 5, 1929 in Moscow
Premiere at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, March 13, 2016.
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on June 17, 2017
In Russian with German and English surtitles
2 hours 15 minutes / No break
Political processes with their very own dynamics are at the center of Modest Mussorgsky's only completed opera BORIS GODUNOW. Although he created the role of Tsar Boris one of the most impressive opera characters ever. It is the portrait of a wise ruler and benevolent father of a family, who with skillful marriage and good governmental work, but also the cruel murder of a child murder, has brought it to the Tsar's throne. And at the same time, the failure of this ruler is shown, who, beset by external enemies, ultimately shatters his inner conscience.
Boris is not an autonomous individual who actively manages and influences political events and ultimately fails heroically in his tragic entanglements. Rather, he is subject to the constraints of political processes, which he is only able to influence less actively than his people, which, as a kind of second protagonist of the piece, by Mussorgsky in impressive choir scenes on the stage. This people, in their suffering under the absolutist power of the Czar and nobility, as well as a raging mob in the final revolution scene of the opera, appears as an anonymous crowd, unaware of their own role, power and responsibility. From this, however, the composer repeatedly solves individual figures. With sometimes only a few sentences, he manages to give them an individual face and destiny and draw a differentiated and ambivalent picture of the power and impotence of individual action on the part of the rulers and rulers.
It staged the English director Richard Jones. He regularly works at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and has worked at New York City Opera, the English National Opera, the opera houses in Amsterdam and Frankfurt, and the Bregenz Festival. He made his Berlin debut in 2004 with Alban Bergs WOZZECK at the Komische Oper Berlin. He first staged BORIS GODUNOW at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
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Opera in four parts / seven pictures
Libretto by Modest P. Mussorgsky on Alexander Pushkin's drama
as well as Nikolai Karamsin's "History of the Russian Empire"
World premiere of the version of 1874 on February 8, 1874 in St. Petersburg
World premiere of the version of 1869 on March 5, 1929 in Moscow
Premiere at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, London, March 13, 2016.
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on June 17, 2017
In Russian with German and English surtitles
2 hours 15 minutes / No break
Political processes with their very own dynamics are at the center of Modest Mussorgsky's only completed opera BORIS GODUNOW. Although he created the role of Tsar Boris one of the most impressive opera characters ever. It is the portrait of a wise ruler and benevolent father of a family, who with skillful marriage and good governmental work, but also the cruel murder of a child murder, has brought it to the Tsar's throne. And at the same time, the failure of this ruler is shown, who, beset by external enemies, ultimately shatters his inner conscience.
Boris is not an autonomous individual who actively manages and influences political events and ultimately fails heroically in his tragic entanglements. Rather, he is subject to the constraints of political processes, which he is only able to influence less actively than his people, which, as a kind of second protagonist of the piece, by Mussorgsky in impressive choir scenes on the stage. This people, in their suffering under the absolutist power of the Czar and nobility, as well as a raging mob in the final revolution scene of the opera, appears as an anonymous crowd, unaware of their own role, power and responsibility. From this, however, the composer repeatedly solves individual figures. With sometimes only a few sentences, he manages to give them an individual face and destiny and draw a differentiated and ambivalent picture of the power and impotence of individual action on the part of the rulers and rulers.
It staged the English director Richard Jones. He regularly works at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, and has worked at New York City Opera, the English National Opera, the opera houses in Amsterdam and Frankfurt, and the Bregenz Festival. He made his Berlin debut in 2004 with Alban Bergs WOZZECK at the Komische Oper Berlin. He first staged BORIS GODUNOW at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Subject may change.
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