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Boris Godunov (Los Angeles)

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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
Stage Director(s)
Chorus Director
Setting designed by
Costumes by

Cast

Boris Godunov, Regent of Russia
Teodoro, his son -- Fyodor
Xenia, his daughter
Shchelkalov
Brother Pimen
Dimitri
Missail
Innkeeper
Simpleton
Police Officer
Sergeant of the Frontier Guard
Boyar in Waiting
Lavitsky
Chernikovsky
First Peasant
Second Peasant
Third Peasant
Fourth Peasant
Boyar

Show Dates

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