Борис Годунов
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Москва
Russian Federation
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Boris Godunov
Novaya Opera
Musical drama in 2 acts
Composer – Modest Mussorgsky
Artistic Director - Evgeny Kolobov
Director - Valery Belyakovich
"This great epic opera takes place in Russia between 1598 and 1605. Boris Godunov ascends the throne, praying for the guidance of God in the great task before him. The old monk Pimen, who is writing a chronicle of Russia, tells Grigory Otrepyev that the young Prince Dmitri, the son of late Tsar Ivan the Terrible, was killed by the usurper, Boris Godunov. The ambitious Grigory decides to pose as Dmitri in order to claim the Russian throne.
Tsar Boris is never at peace: he is haunted by the memory of Dmitri's murder. When he learns that a pretender has emerged in Lithuania under the name of Dmitri, the shattered Boris has a vision of the murdered child.
A simpleton, tormented by the cruelty of children, compares Boris with Herod, thus expressing the people's hostile attitude towards their tsar. Boris, ill and demented with guilt, can take no more and dies. He accepts death as redemption for his sin.
From the official web site of The Novaya Opera Theatre
Running time: 2 hours 40 minutes (with one intermission)
Novaya Opera
Address: 3, Karetny Ryad, Hermitage Garden; Chekhovskaya metro station.
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