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Work: Boris Godunov

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ComposerMussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)
PeriodRomantic
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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LondonBoris Godunov

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Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
Mark Wigglesworth; Richard Jones; The Royal Opera; Miriam Buether; Nicky Gillibrand; Mimi Jordan Sherin; Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
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Terfel’s craggy Boris Godunov returns to Covent Garden

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The second revival of Richard Jones' staging of Mussorgsky's original 1869 version of Boris Godunov once again stars the Welsh knight. 
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Epic swing and miss: Boris Godunov opens at Hungarian State Opera

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András Almási-Toth production of the original version of Mussorgsky's historical epic underwhelms in Budapest. 
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Staatsoper Hamburg's new Boris Godunov traverses Russian history

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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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Budapest pulls out all the stops: the new Hungarian State Opera season

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The vast 2023–24 season at Budapest boast 41 different operas and 19 ballets – with new productions of Boris Godunov, Rusalka, ballets by Bartók, and a world premiere from Peter Eötvös.

Russian Composers and History

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In attempting to cement a sense of Russian identity through music, the nation's composers looked to history for inspiration.