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
1961
Language
English
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Stage Director(s)
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Costumers
Cast
Police Officer
Andrei Shchelkalov, Secretary of the Duma
Prince Shuisky, court adviser to Boris
Boris Godunov, Regent of Russia
Pimen, a monk and historian
Grigori, a novice (later Dimitri, the pretender)
Innkeeper
Varlaam
Missail
Frontier Guard
Xenia, daughter of Boris
Xenia's nurse
Fyodor, son of Boris
Boyar Khrushchev
Marina Mnishek, daughter of a Polish landowner
Irene Dalis(9/21)
Marilyn Horne(10/13)
Rangoni, a Jesuit priest
Fool
Lavitsky
Chernikovsky
Show Dates
Time and Place
About 1600; Russia and Poland
Scenes
PROLOGUE, Scene 1 -- Outside a monastery near Moscow
Scene 2 -- Cathedral square in Moscow
Act I, Scene 1 -- A cell in the monastery of the Miracle at Night, six years later
Scene 2 -- Inn on the Lithuanian frontier
INTERMISSION
Act II, Scene 1 -- In the Kremlin
Scene 2 -- Marina's palace in Poland
Scene 3 -- Near Marina's palace
INTERMISSION
Act III, Scene 1 -- Forest of Kromy near Moscow
Scene 2 -- Duma in the Kremlin
Media
Document
SFO_PUB_01_SFO_1961_03_compressed.pdf
(8.93 MB)
Notes
To access the full production program, click the PDF link above.
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Text translated by John Gutman
Rimsky-Korsakov version
San Francisco Opera Boys Chorus Madi Bacon, Director
Kieth Engen's first name IS correctly spelled. He changed the spelling during his career in German opera houses.