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Opera in four parts and seven scenes, First version (1868/1869) Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky after Alexander Pushkin & Nikolai Karamsins – HD recording: Bavarian State Opera, Munich, February 2013 Set design: Rebecca Ringst Costume design: Ingo Krügler Lighting: Michael Bauer Dramaturgy: Andrea Schönhofer 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. In conjuction with conductor Kent Nagano, Spanish stage director Calixto Bieito proposes an original reading of this brilliant work. The cast is led by Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris), with associates Gerhard Siegel (Schuisky), Markus Eiche (Chelkalov) and Anatoli Kotscherga (Pimen). Reviews Gramophone Magazine May 2014 “the updating seems neither modish nor forced, and is carried out with economy and intelligence…There’s no dip in commitment anywhere in the cast. Tsymbalyuk’s Boris, sung in a pleasingly smooth, well-regulated bass, is excellent…Nagano achieves thrillingly focused results…Highly recommended. The Telegraph 11th April 2014 “With thrilling stagecraft and theatrical clarity, Bieito unapologetically updates Pushkin’s tragedy to a brutal modern world of dictatorship, surveillance, resistance and riot police: the politics…are all too relevant to events and personalities in eastern Europe today…Nagano’s conducting homing in on the score’s nervous intensity, this is an electrifying performance of overwhelming power – 5 out of 5 stars |