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Russian Opera: Khovanshchina

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Opera in five acts
Music by Mussorgsky (completed and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov)
Libretto by THE COMPOSER and v. v. STASSOV (sung in Russian) A production by Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre Dosifey, leader of the Old
Believers
EVGENY NESTERENKO (bass)
BOLSHOI CHORUS chorus-masters A. v. RYBNOV and I. G. AGAFONNIKOV BOLSHOI ORCHESTRA conducted by YURI SIMONOV
A simultaneous broadcast with BBC2. See page 25.
Acts 1 and 2 8.50* Interval Reading
8.55* Khovanshchina Acts 3, 4 and 5

Contributors

Unknown:
Bolshoi Theatre
Unknown:
I. G. Agafonnikov
Conducted By:
Yuri Simonov
Prince Ivan Khovansky, leader of the Streltsy militia:
Alexander
Prince Vasily Golitsyn:
E T Raikov(tenor)
Marfa a young widow and prophetess:
Irina Arkhipova(mezzo-Soprano)
Shaklovity:
V I Romanovsky (baritone)
Prince Andrey Khovansky, Ivans son:
G Y Andryushchenko(tenor)
Scribe:
V N Vlasov(tenor)
Emma a young girl from the German quarter:
M A Miglau(soprano)
Streshniev:
I A Morozov(tenor)
Varsonoflev, attendant upon Golitsyn:
V V Yaroslavtsev(baritone)
Kuzka, a sentry:
A T Dzhaparidze(tenor)
First guard:
V N Filippov(baritone)
Second guard:
M S Shkaptsov(bass)
Source: Radio Times

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