An opera in a prologue and four acts
Text based on Pushkin's drama
Words and music by Mussorgsky
Revised and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov with additional orchestration by Ippolitov-Ivanov sung in Russian
Cast in order of singing:
Townsfolk, boyars, soldiers, Polish nobility, wandering mendicants, monks
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE BOLSHOI THEATRE
Conducted by Nikolai Golovanov
The action takes place between 1598 and 1605 Prologue
Sc. 1 The courtyard of the Novodievichy Monastery tn Moscow
Sc. 2 A square In the Kremlin
Act 1
Sc. 1 A cell In the Chudov
Monastery
Se. 2 An inn near the Lithuanian border