9 February, Tuesday, 20:00

Mariinsky Theatre
1, Teatralnaya Square

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Playbill Calendar
VI Festival Maslenitsa (Shrovetide)

Boris Godunov

opera in seven acts (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
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
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko
Musical Preparation: Irina Soboleva

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 Fri, 12 Mar 2010

Changes to the playbill
On 21 March at 19.00 at the Mariinsky Theatre
instead of the ballet The Fountain of Bakhchisarai there will be a performance of Giselle.
Tickets remain valid.

On 26 March at 19.00 at the Mariinsky Theatre
instead of the ballet The Fountain of Bakhchisarai there will be a performance of Giselle.
Tickets remain valid.

On 7 April at 19.00 at the Mariinsky Theatre
instead of the ballet Diana Vishneva: Beauty in motion there will be a performance of Giselle.
Tickets remain valid.

The fourth concert of the fourteenth subscription
Yuri Bashmet and the “Moscow Soloists” Chamber Ensemble
at the Concert Hall
has been moved from 21 April to 19 April.
Tickets remain valid.

The sixth concert of the nineteenth subscription,
previously planned for 17 June, has been changed to 26 June.
Tickets remain valid. Diana Vishneva: Beauty in motion