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Im Panoptikum der Unterdrückung: Boris Godunow an der Oper Frankfurt

Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris Godunow)
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Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris Godunow) und Michael McCown (Gottesnarr)
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Boris Godunow
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Michael McCown (Gottesnarr)
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Dmitry Golovnin (Grigori Otrepjew) und Andreas Bauer Kanabas (Pimen)
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Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Boris Godunow) und Karolina Makuła (Fjodor)
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Michael McCown (Gottesnarr)
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Karolina Makuła (Fjodor) und Anna Nekhames (Xenia)
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“ein Boris, der nicht nur gesehen, sondern durchlitten werden will”
Reviewed at Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main on 6 November 2025
Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov
Oper Frankfurt
Thomas Guggeis, Conductor
Keith Warner, Director
Kaspar Glarner, Set Designer, Costume Designer
John Bishop, Lighting Designer
Opera Frankfurt Orchestra
Frankfurt Opera Chorus
Jorge Cousineau, Video
Mareike Wink, Dramaturgy
Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Boris Godunov
Sofija Petrović, Marina
Dmitry Golovnin, Grigory
Andreas Bauer Kanabas, Pimen
Michael McCown, Simpleton, The Boyar-in-Attendance
Peter Marsh, Missail
Claudia Mahnke, The Innkeeper
Morgan-Andrew King, Nikitich
Frederic Jost, Mityukha
Thomas Faulkner, Rangoni
Anna Nekhames, Xenia
Mikołaj Trąbka, Shchelkalov
AJ Glueckert, Prince Shuisky, The Boyar Khrushchov
Inho Jeong, Varlaam
Judita Nagyová, Xenia's nurse
Karolina Makuła, Feodor
Álvaro Corral Matute, Choirmaster / chorus director
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