Composer
Librettist
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
1956
Language
Russian
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Costumers
Cast
Boris Godunov, Regent of Russia
Fyodor, his son
Xenia, his daughter
Nurse
Shuisky
Shchelkalov
Brother Pimen
Dimitri/Grigori
Marina
Rangoni
Varlaam
Missail
Innkeeper
Simpleton
Police Officer
Frontier Guard
Chernikovsky
Lavitsky
Khrushchev, a Boyar
First Peasant
Second Peasant
Third Peasant
Show Dates
Time and Place
About 1600; Moscow and Lithuanian Frontier
Scenes
Act I, Scene 1 -- Outside a Monastery near Moscow
Scene 2 -- Cathedral Square, Moscow
Scene 3 -- Cell in Monastery of the Miracle at Night, six years later
Scene 4 -- Inn on the Lithuanian Frontier
Scene 5 -- In the Kremlin
Act II, Scene 1 -- In Marina's Palace, Poland
Scene 2 -- Near Marina's Palace
Act III, Scene 1 -- Forest of Kromy near Moscow
Scene 2 -- Duma in the Kremlin
Legacy Commission
Rimsky-Korsakov version
Notes
Corps de Ballet
Pasadena Boys Choristers; John Henry Lyons, Director
Phonetic transliteration by Mme. Seraphima Strelova
"Newly Revised Production"
These performances represented San Francisco Opera's first
"Boris" in its original Russian.
It also includes an interesting statistic: the only time Hans Hotter ever sang a role in Russian.