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Leonid Baratov stages Mussorgsky's musical drama based on Pushkin's tragedy. The opera was composed between 1868 and 1873 and first staged in 1874 in St. Petersburg. Version and orchestration by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Orchestration of "At St. Basil Cathedral" scene by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov. Conductors: Vassily Sinaisky, Pavel Sorokin. Director - Igor Ushakov. Sung in Russian. Ever since Fyodor Chaliapin’s triumphant appearance in the role at the Paris Opera, Boris Godunov is unqualifiedly considered by Russian and world audiences to be the chief personage of Russian opera and its leading potentate. For the whole world today Mussorgsky’s opera is a key work on the abstract nature of power in general, with no need for concrete historical associations or the literal reproduction of realia.
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