Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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| Mariinsky Opera | ||
| Valery Gergiev | Musikalische Leitung | |
| Mikhail Kazakov | Bass | Boris Godunow |
| Mikhail Petrenko | Bass | Pimen |
| Anastasia Kalagina | Sopran | Xenia |
| Evgeny Akimov | Tenor | Fürst Wassilij Iwanowitsch Schujskij |
| Yekaterina Sergeyeva | Mezzosopran | Fjodor |
| Andrei Popov | Tenor | Schwachsinniger (Gottesnarr) (The yuródivïy or Holy Fool) |
| Alexey Markov | Bariton | Andrei Schtschelkalow |
| Sergei Aleksashkin | Bass | Warlaam |
'Weep, weep, O soul; soul of poor Russia'. Mussorgsky’sBoris Godunov is Russia’s national epic: the story of a ruler and the ruled, of splendour and suffering, and the all-too human price of power. It’s one of the supreme achievements in Russian opera; and this concert performance by the Mariinsky company under Valery Gergiev – surely the greatest living conductor of Russian opera – is the first of two very different operas being performed in the Mariinsky’s Barbican residency: a nation looking deeply inwards, just as Shchedrin’s The Left-Hander looks to the West.
Tickets £15–£65 plus booking fee
