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 1951 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Erich Leinsdorf Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Cast Boris Godunov, Regent of Russia Nicola Rossi-Lemeni Teodoro, his son -- Fyodor Yvonne Chauveau Xenia, his daughter Lois Hartzell Nurse June Wilkins Shchelkalov George Cehanovsky Brother Pimen Nicola Moscona Dimitri Walter Fredericks Marina Blanche Thebom Rangoni Desire Ligeti Varlaam Salvatore Baccaloni Missail Caesar Curzi Innkeeper Alice Ostrowsky Simpleton James Schwabacher Police Officer Yi-Kwei Sze Frontier Guard Enrico Porta Boyar in Waiting Ernest Lawrence Levitzky Yi-Kwei Sze Charniakovsky George Cehanovsky Boyar Harold White First Peasant Arlene McIntosh Second Peasant Eloise Farrell Third Peasant Paul Guenter Fourth Peasant Edward Novi Show Dates Wed, Oct 24 1951, 8pm Time and Place About 1600; Moscow, Lithuanian Frontier, Poland Scenes Part I, Scene 1 -- Outside the Novodievichy Monastery 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 Lituanian Frontier Part II, Scene 5 -- Tsar's Apartment in the Kremlin Part III, Scene 6 -- Park of Marina's Palace, Poland Part IV, Scene 7 -- Forest of Kromy near Moscow Scene 7 -- Duma in the Kremlin Notes Corps de Ballet