the historical tragedy by Alexander Pushkin and "History of the Russian State" by Nikolai Karamzin
Creative/Crew
Conductor
Production
Stage Director(s)
Set Designer(s)
Costume Designer(s)
Lighting Designer
Sound Designer
Chorus Director
Choreographer
Musical Preparation
Prompter
Assistant Stage Director(s)
Stage Manager(s)
Cast
Nikitich, a police officer
Mityukha, a peasant
Shchelkalov, Secretary of the Duma
Prince Shuisky
Boris Godunov
Pimen, a monk and chronicler
Grigory (the Pretender Dimitri)
Innkeeper
Missail, a vagabond monk
Varlaam, a vagabond monk
Border guard
Xenia, daughter of Boris
Feodor, son of Boris
Their nurse
Boyar in Attendance
Marina Mnishek, a Polish princess
Rangoni, a Jesuit priest
Simpleton
Boyar Khrushchev
Chernikovsky, a Jesuit
Lavitsky, a Jesuit
Show Dates
Time and Place
1598-1605; Russia and Poland
Scenes
Media
Acknowledgements
A generous gift from Mr. and Mrs. Thomas N. Jordan had helped to make the presentation of this production possible
Legacy Commission
Original version edited by DAVID LLOYD-JONES
Notes
Based on the historical tragedy by ALEXANDER SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN
and the "History of the Russian State" by NIKOLAI MIKHAILOVICH KARAMZIN
Production owned by Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
This production made possible by a generous and deeply appreciated gift from Mrs. DeWitt Wallace
Scenery, properties and electrical props constructed and painted in Metropolitan Opera shops
Costumes executed by Metropolitan Opera Costume Department
San Francisco Boys Chorus
William Ballard, Director
Holger Besch
Duncan Campbell
Devan Cross
Michael Curphey
Jacob Donham
Francis Freenor
Daniel Handler
Federico Hewson
Daniel Jackowitz
John David Lanigan
John Lucero
Nathaniel Lunt
Andrew Mak
Eric Marty
Mark McDonald
Michael Molina
David Parvin
John Pennebaker
Hiram Piskitel
Jeffrey Pulley
Daniel Saffer
Geary Sellers
Thomas Shephard
Kelsey Siegel
George Somers
John Taber
Ying-Huang Thai Low
Owen Thomas
Lyndon Ubana
Robert West
Stanford White
Jeffery Williams
Samuel Yen
San Francisco Girls Chorus
Elizabeth Appling, Director
Deirdre Atkinson
Rebecca Fink
Samantha Graff
Karla Haeberle
Martha Hicks
Alissa Kingsbury
Radha Kramer
Phoenix Reed
Cynthia Shank
Tanna Thompson
CORPS DE BALLET
Johanna Baer
Lisa Brodsky
Peggy David
Liz Douglass
Anne Elizabeth Egan
Devra Gregory
Carolyn Houser
Amy Laszlo
Loren Marcinkowski
Sarah Gale Oppenheimer
Page Perry
Kathryn Roszak
Susan Stewart
Elaine Wadsworth
Katherine Warner
Peter Childers
Edward Dubell
William Dunn
Gregory Gonzales
Tom Hillyard
Gregory Lara
Karstyn McCoy
Dennis McDonald
John Norris
John Schoenberger
Edward Staver
John Sullivan
SUPERNUMERARIES
Hester Alvarez
Patricia Angell
Karen Bailey
Joyce Barnett
Katherine Brazaitis
Lorna Bridges
Dottie Brown
Renée DeJarnatt
Carol Dunlap
Carolyn Ekstedt
Esther Erford
Jane M. Gitschier
Roberta Heath
Jennifer Heglar
Mary Kay Henderson
Susan Holzkamp
Joan Imbeau
Nina Izotoff
Loisann Jakovitz
Christie Kohler
Barbara Konkle
Joan Kwansa
Francesca Leo
Holly Morrison
Marta Ann Osterloh
Dorothy Papo
Miriam Preece
Julia Reisz
Gwen Reynolds
Louise Russo
Ellen Sanchez
Dorothy Schimke
Sally Scott
Susan Scott
Donna Shanklin
Valentina Simi
Robin Stewart
Stella Tatro
Beverly Terry
Karen Topp
Lisa Waters
Carolyn Waugh
Gretchen Weber
Jain Weidner
Susan Weiss
Lillian Williams
Andrew Alder
Gene Angell
Richard Ares
Sky Bamford
Stephen Bartlett-Re