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| Composer | Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881) |
| Period | Romantic |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Alain Altinoglu; Vasily Barkhatov; La Monnaie | De Munt; Dmitry Matvienko; Zinovy Margolin; Olga Shaishmelashvili; Alexander Sivaev
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Terfel’s craggy Boris Godunov returns to Covent Garden
The second revival of Richard Jones' staging of Mussorgsky's original 1869 version of Boris Godunov once again stars the Welsh knight.
Epic swing and miss: Boris Godunov opens at Hungarian State Opera
András Almási-Toth production of the original version of Mussorgsky's historical epic underwhelms in Budapest.
Staatsoper Hamburg's new Boris Godunov traverses Russian history
Opening the new opera season, Kent Nagano powerfully directs Mussorgsky's great psychodrama about a famous tsar, marred only by Frank Castorf's visually confusing and symbolically overweighted production.
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