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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: Tugan Sokhiev, Pavel Sorokin. Director - Nikolai Golovanov. 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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15:00 | Opera Live HD: Die Rosenkavalier |
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Opera. USA 2017, 252 min. Music by Richard Strauss. New production by Robert Carsen. Conductor - Sebastian Weigle. Starring: Renée Fleming, Elīna Garanča, Erin Morley, Matthew Polenzani, Marcus Brück, Günther Groissböck. Set Designer - Paul Steinberg. Costume Designer - Brigitte Reiffenstuel. Lighting Designer - Peter Van Praet, Robert Carsen. Choreographer - Philippe Giraudeau. In German with Russian subtitles. The dream cast of Renée Fleming as the Marschallin and Elīna Garanča as Octavian star in Strauss’s grandest opera. In his new production, Robert Carsen, the director behind the Met’s recent Falstaff, places the action at the end of the Habsburg Empire, underscoring the opera’s subtext of class and conflict against a rich backdrop of gilt and red damask, in a staging that also stars Günther Groissböck as Baron Ochs. Sebastian Weigle conducts the sparklingly perfect score. Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera; Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London; and Teatro Regio di Torino.
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