9 February 2010, Tuesday, 20:00

Mariinsky Theatre
1 Theatre Square

version for print

Playbill Calendar
VI Festival Maslenitsa (Shrovetide)

Boris Godunov

opera in seven scenes (original 1869 version)
Music by Modest Musorgsky
Libretto by the composer after the tragedy of the same name by Alexander Pushkin
and Nikolai Karamzin´s tragedy The History of the Russian State
Stage version by Alexei Stepanyuk
Performed in Russian
The performance will have synchronised English supertitles
Conductor:  Valery Gergiev

Cast

Boris Godunov: Yevgeny Nikitin
Shuisky: Nikolai Gassiev
Pimen: Mikhail Kit
Grigori: Sergei Semishkur
Simpleton: Yevgeny Akimov
Andrei Shchelkalov: Alexei Markov
Varlaam: Alexei Tanovitski

Credits

Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Stage version by Alexei Stepanyuk
Set Designer: George Tsypin
Costume Designer: Tatiana Noginova
Lighting Designer: Gleb Filshtinsky
Musical Preparation: Irina Soboleva
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko
Children’s Chorus Master: Dmitry Ralko

World premiere: 8 February 1874, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes
The performance without interval

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VI Festival Maslenitsa (Shrovetide)
7 – 14 February 2010

Changes to the playbill

Today Thu, 2 Sep 2010

Changes to the playbill

Information for audiences:

The concert featuring Nikolaj Znaider as listed on the playbill for 4 October will now take place on 1 October.
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

On 24 October, instead of the planned performance of the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and an evening of piano music, at 15.00, the Mariinsky Theatre will now be staging a premiere of the opera Věc Makropulos (The Makropoulos Affair).
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

On 28 October, the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre will now commence at 18.00 and not at 19.00 as previously announced.
Tickets remain valid

On 29 October at the Mariinsky Theatre, instead of a recital there will be a concert performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar’s Bride featuring Olga Borodina as Lyubasha.
Tickets remain valid

The performance of the ballet La Sylphide at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 30 October, has been moved to 31 October, starting at 19.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The performance of the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 31 October, has been moved to 30 October, starting at 17.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The management would like to offer its apologies