BORIS GODUNOV

By Modest Mussorgsky

Original version

 

Premiere
Staatsoper Stuttgart, 22.1.1997

 

Conductor :: Janos Kulka
Director :: Inga Levant
Set & lighting :: Charles Edwards
Costumes :: Brigitte Reiffenstuel

 

Cast
Boris :: Paata Burchuladze
Pimen :: Phillip Ens
Dimitry :: Alan Beck
Shuisky :: Robert Künzli
Feodor :: Claudia Mahnke
Xenia :: Louise Walsh
Schelkalov :: Hernan Iturralde
A Simpleton :: Dieter Bundschuh
Varlaam :: Helmut Berger-Tuna
Misail :: Roderic Keating

Rimski-Korsakov version

 

Premiere
National Theatre Brno, 26.10.2007

 

Conductor :: Jan Zbavitel
Director :: Inga Levant
Set & costumes :: Friedrich Eggert

 

Cast
Boris :: Jevhen Šokalo
Shuisky :: Václav Málek
Pimen :: Jiri Sulženko
Dimitry :: Ivan Choupenitch
Varlaam :: Jan Hladik
Misail :: Milan Rudolecký
Innkeeper :: Adriana Hlavsová
A Simpleton :: Petr Levicek
Xenia :: Andrea Priechodská
Schelkalov ::



REVIEW

"...very strong directing of the characters and choir... modern set.. Strong audience involvement, since the production woke up many memories from their recent history."
Der Neue Merker Wien , 26/10/2007