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 1948 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Erich Leinsdorf Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Cast Boris Godunov, Regent of Russia Ezio Pinza Teodoro, his son -- Fyodor Martina Zubiri Xenia, his daughter Lois Hartzell Nurse Claramae Turner Shuisky Alessio De Paolis Shchelkalov George Cehanovsky Brother Pimen Lorenzo Alvary Dimitry Charles Kullman Marina Winifred Heidt Rangoni Daniel Duno Varlaam Salvatore Baccaloni Missail Leslie Chabay Innkeeper Eula Beal Simpleton John Garris Police Officer John Ford Frontier Guard Desire Ligeti Boyar in Waiting Paul Walti Lavitsky Walter Olitzki Chernikovsky John Ford Boyar William Rooney Solo Dancer(s) Rosalie Prosch Peter Nelson Show Dates Mon, Oct 25 1948, 8pm Time and Place About 1600; Moscow and Lithuanian Frontier Scenes Part I, Scene 1 -- Outside the Monastery of Novodievichy near Moscow Scene 2 -- Cathedral Square, Moscow Scene 3 -- Lonely Cell in Monastery of the Miracle at Night, six years later Scene 4 -- Inn on the Lithuanian Frontier Part II -- Tsar's Apartment in the Kremlin Part III -- Park of Marina's Palace, Poland Part IV, Scene 1 -- Forest of Kromy near Moscow Scene 2 -- Duma in the Kremlin Notes St. James Choristers of South Pasadena Dr. John Henry Lyons, Director Corps de Ballet