Boris godounov
Modeste Petrovitch Moussorgski
Boris Godounov
Opera in seven scenes
- Music
- Modeste Moussorgski
- Libretto
- Modeste Moussorgski
- Conductor
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Vladimir Jurowski
Damian Iorio - Director
- Ivo van Hove
- Boris Godounov
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Ildar Abdrazakov
Alexander Tsymbalyuk - Fiodor
- Evdokia Malevskaya
- Xenia
- Ruzan Mantashyan
- La nourrice
- Alexandra Durseneva
- Le prince Chouiski
- Maxim Paster
- Andrei Chtchelkalov
- Boris Pinkhasovich
- Pimène
- Ain Anger
- Grigori Otrepiev
- Dmitry Golovnin
- Varlaam
- Evgeny Nikitin
- Missaïl
- Peter Bronder
- L'aubergiste
- Elena Manistina
- L'innocent
- Vasily Efimov
- Mitioukha
- Mikhail Timoshenko
- Un officier de police
- Maxim Mikhailov
- Un boyard, voix dans la foule
- Luca Sannai
- Set design
- Jan Versweyveld
- Lighting design
- Jan Versweyveld
- Costume design
- An D’Huys
- Video
- Tal Yarden
- Dramaturgy
- Jan Vandenhouwe
- Chorus master
- José Luis Basso
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Chœur d’enfants de l’Opéra national de Paris
French and English surtitles
Ce spectacle fait l’objet d’une captation réalisée par Don Kent, coproduite par l’Opéra national de Paris et Bel Air Média, avec la participation de France 2, avec le soutien du CNC et de la Fondation Orange, mécène des retransmissions audiovisuelles de l’Opéra national de Paris. Ce spectacle sera retransmis en direct sur Culturebox le 7 juin 2018 à 20h. Il sera également retransmis le même jour en direct avec le concours de Fra Cinéma, dans les cinémas UGC, dans le cadre de leur saison Viva l’Opéra ! et dans des cinémas indépendants en France et dans le monde entier. Il sera retransmis sur France Musique le 1er juillet 2018 à 20h et ultérieurement sur France 2.
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Living power is unbearable for the people. They can love only the dead.- Boris, Boris Godounov, Alexandre Pouchkine
In 1824, when Pushkin turned to Boris Godunov for his first historical drama, he knew only too well what a colossus he was tackling. It was armed with his reading of Shakespeare that he matched his skills to the dazzling reign of the Tzar of Russia (1598-1605). Indeed, there are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris has had killed in order to seize the throne appears as an impostor. Adapting this epic poem, Mussorgsky composed a meditation on the solitude of power, a populist drama in which the real protagonist is the Russian people with its burden of eternal suffering. Pushkin had already wondered, “What is a soul? A melody, perhaps…” Ivo Van Hove is no stranger to grand political frescos having already staged Tragédies Romaines and Kings of War based on plays by Shakespeare.
This is his first production for the Paris Opera.
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