Organization

Stage director

Calixto Bieito

Set designer

Rebecca Ringst

Costume designer

Ingo Krügler

Lighting designer

Michael Bauer

Dramaturge

Andrea Schönhofer

Singer

Baritone

Sean Michael Plumb

Andrey Shchelkalov

Bass

Vitalij Kowaljow

Pimen

Tenor

Dmytro Popov

Grigoriy

Thomas Mole

Mityukha

Conductor

Dima Slobodeniouk

Dmitry Ulyanov

Boris Godunov

Mezzo-soprano

Emily Sierra

Fyodor

Soprano

Mirjam Mesak

Kseniya

Milan Siljanov

Varlaam

Tansel Akzeybek

Misail

Claudia Huckle

The innkeeper

Christian Rieger

Border guard

Kevin Conners

Simpleton

Aleksey Kursanov

Court Boyar

Bayerische Staatsoper

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Bayerisches Staatsorchester

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Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

Extrachor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

Kinderchor der Bayerischen Staatsoper

Chorus master

Christoph Heil

Nadezhda Karyazina

Kseniya's nurse

Evgeny Akimov

Prince Vasiliy Ivanovich Shuysky

Andrew Harris

Police officer in the inn

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Boris Godunov Musorgsky

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Boris Godunov Mussorgsky

Watch full performance here: Boris Godunov (2013)

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Kindesmord, intrigierende Mönche und ein dem Wahnsinn verfallender Zar – Modest Mussorgski hat den thematischen Bogen weit gespannt in seiner ab 1868 entstandenen Choroper, mit der er über den Umweg eines historischen Stoffes das Bewusstsein für seine eigene Zeit zu wecken versuchte. Was ihn als Künstler des 19. Jahrhunderts umtrieb, war die Psychologie der Massen. So übernimmt in Boris Godunow neben dem Titelhelden vor allem das russische Volk, das jubelnde, hungernde, das fordernde und fragende, die eigentliche Hauptrolle: „Die feinen Züge der menschlichen Natur und der menschlichen Masse aufzufinden, ein eigensinniges Bohren in diesen unerforschten Regionen und ihre Eroberung – das ist die Mission des echten Künstlers. Zu neuen Ufern!“

Deutsch

Infanticide, scheming monks and a tsar going insane – Modest Mussorgsky drew a wide thematic arc in his choral opera, written from 1868, with which he attempted to awaken awareness of his own time using historical material. What drove him as an artist of the 19th century was the psychology of the masses. In Boris Godunov , for example, alongside the hero in the title, it is above all the Russian people who take on the main role, the jubilant, starving, demanding and questioning: “To find the fine traits of human nature and the human mass, to stubbornly drill into these unexplored regions and theirs Conquest - that is the mission of the real artist. To new shores!”

Boris Godunov by Mussorgsky, From (2024/2024), Directed by Calixto Bieito,, Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk, Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany

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