Composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Librettist Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky Based On the historical tragedy by Alexander Pushkin and "History of the Russian State" by Nikolai Karamzin Company San Francisco Opera Association Touring Location Los Angeles, CA Venue Shrine Auditorium Season 1945 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Georges Sebastian Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Setting designed by Eugene Dunkel Costumes by Stivanello-Culcasi, New York Cast Boris Godunov, Regent of Russia Ezio Pinza Teodoro, his son -- Fyodor Herta Glaz Xenia, his daughter Frances Castellani Nurse Margaret Harshaw Shuisky Alessio De Paolis Shchelkalov George Cehanovsky Brother Pimen Lorenzo Alvary Dimitri Frederick Jagel Marina Vivian Della Chiesa Varlaam Salvatore Baccaloni Missail Herbert Nystrom Innkeeper Claramae Turner Simpleton John Garris Police Officer Charles Goodwin Sergeant of the Frontier Guard Georg Spelvinski Boyar in Waiting Joseph Tissier Lavitsky Charles Goodwin Chernikovsky Robert Mills First Peasant Bianca Bruni Second Peasant Lorraine Calcagno Third Peasant Benjamin Martin Fourth Peasant Augusto Lourenzo Boyar Paul Lieber Show Dates Mon, Nov 5 1945, 8pm Time and Place About 1600; Moscow and Lithuanian Frontier Scenes Act I, Scene 1 -- Outside of Novodievichy Monastery near Moscow Scene 2 -- Lonely Cell in the Monastery of the Miracle at Night Scene 3 -- Cathedral Square, Moscow Act II, Scene 1 -- Inn on the Lithuanian Frontier Scene 2 -- Czar's Apartment in the Kremlin Act III -- Park of Marina's Palace, Poland Act IV, Scene 1 -- Kromy Forest near Moscow Scene 2 -- Duma in the Kremlin Notes Settings designed and painted by Eugene B. Dunkel and constructed in the studios of The San Francisco Opera Association Pasadena Boys' Choir Trained by Director, Dr. John Henry Lyons. This staging did not include the role of Rangoni