Composer
Librettist
Based On
the historical tragedy by Alexander Pushkin and "History of the Russian State" by Nikolai Karamzin
Company
San Francisco Opera Association
Location
San Francisco, CA
Venue
War Memorial Opera House
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
Media
Document
SFO_PUB_01_SFO_1956_03_compressed.pdf
(9.84 MB)
Notes
To access the full production program, click the PDF link above.
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Rimsky-Korsakov version
San Francisco Opera Boys Chorus
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.