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Work: Khovanshchina

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ComposerMussorgsky, Modest Petrovich (1839-1881)
PeriodRomantic
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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An historical affair: Khovanshchina at the Staatsoper Berlin

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With Claus Guth directing and Simone Young on the podium, the Staatsoper Unter den Linden's new production of Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina proves that the past isn't really past. 
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Gergiev conducts a grandiose Khovanshchina at La Scala

In Khovanshchina, even more so than in Boris Godunov, the chorus is the chief protagonist and the La Scala chorus was truly astonishing.
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Stark and spellbinding: Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina

Welsh National Opera’s new season commemorating the centenary of the 1917 Revolution with three Russian-themed works opens with both a bang and a whimper with this trenchant revival.
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Anarchy and utopia: Calixto Bieito on directing Mussorgsky

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The iconoclastic Spanish director talks about a new production of Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina in Geneva – and the messy, anarchic, utopian struggle of directing opera.

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.