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 Sacramento, CA Venue Sacramento Memorial Auditorium Season 1946 Language Italian Creative/Crew Conductor Georges Sebastian Stage Director(s) Armando Agnini Chorus Director Kurt Herbert Adler Cast Boris Godunov, Regent of Russia Ezio Pinza Teodoro, his son -- Fyodor Eleanor Knapp Xenia, his daughter Muriel Demers Nurse Margaret Harshaw Shuisky Alessio De Paolis Shchelkalov George Cehanovsky Brother Pimen Lorenzo Alvary Dimitri Mario Berini Marina Herta Glaz Varlaam Salvatore Baccaloni Missail Joseph Tissier Innkeeper Ellen Repp Simpleton John Garris Police Officer Desire Ligeti Boyar in Waiting George Tallone Lavitsky Desire Ligeti Chernikovsky Walter Olitzki First Peasant Bianca Bruni Second Peasant Lorraine Calcagno Third Peasant Benjamin Martin Fourth Peasant Colin Harvey Show Dates Sat, Oct 5 1946, 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 Corps de Ballet This staging did not include the role of Rangoni The curtain time is a guess; the printed program failed to include that detail.