FULL BORIS GODUNOV Vladivostok 2022 Ildar Abdrazakov, Yevgeny Plekhanov, Roman Krukovich

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Boris Godunov  
• Composer: Mussorgsky Modest  
• Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Primorsky Stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, Vladivostok, Russia  
• Recorded: September 7, 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Ildar Abdrazakov, Yevgeny Plekhanov, Roman Krukovich, Alexei Kostyuk, Sergei Pleshivtsev
• Conductor: Pavel Smelkov  
• Orchestra: Orchestra of the Primorsky Stage  
• Chorus: Chorus of the Primorsky Stage  
• Chorus Master: Konstantin Rylov, Larisa Shveikovskaya  
• Stage Director: Andrei Tarkovsky  
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Natalya Tyurina  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Anna Agranova  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, tr. Borís Godunóv) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky’s only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece. Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar (1598 to 1605) during the Time of Troubles, and his nemesis, the False Dmitriy (reigned 1605 to 1606). The Russian-language libretto was written by the composer, and is based on the 1825 drama Boris Godunov by Aleksandr Pushkin, and, in the Revised Version of 1872, on Nikolay Karamzin’s History of the Russian State.

Among major operas, Boris Godunov shares with Giuseppe Verdi’s Don Carlos (1867) the distinction of having an extremely complex creative history, as well as a great wealth of alternative material. The composer created two versions—the Original Version of 1869, which was rejected for production by the Imperial Theatres, and the Revised Version of 1872, which received its first performance in 1874 in Saint Petersburg.

Boris Godunov has often been subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, or conflation of the original and revised versions.

Several composers, chief among them Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Dmitri Shostakovich, have created new editions of the opera to “correct” perceived technical weaknesses in the composer’s original scores. Although these versions held the stage for decades, Mussorgsky’s individual harmonic style and orchestration are now valued for their originality, and revisions by other hands have fallen out of fashion.

In the 1980s, Boris Godunov was closer to the status of a repertory piece than any other Russian opera, even Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and is the most recorded Russian opera.

Quoted from Wikipedia