Opera in five acts
Music by Mussorgsky, arr
Shostakovich Libretto by THE COMPOSER and VALDlMIRSTASOV
(sung in Russian)
Introduced by Stephen Johnson. Set in the years immediately before Tsar Peter the Great assumed full control in 1694, Mussorgsky's opera is a vivid portrayal of a nation torn apart by religious and political strife, held together only by military force.
Kouzka, a strelyets
First strelyets ERIK HARBO (tenor) „ MOGENS BERG (baritone) Second strelyets
UFFE HENRIKSEN (bass)
Scribe ...........HEINZ ZEDNIK (tenor) e Boyar Shaklovity
LARS WAAGE (baritone)
Prince Ivan Khovansky , commander of the Streltsy
AAGEHAUGLAND(baSS) gnuna ...ELSEBETH LUND (soprano) Prince Andrey Khovansky ,
"ince Ivan's son
SEPPO RUOHONEN (tenor)
Marfa, an Old Believer
ALEXANDRINA MILCHEVA
(mezzo-soprano)
Dosifey, leader of the Old
Believers .MARTTI TALVELA (bass)
Prince Vasily Golitsin , lover of the Regent Sofia
. STIGFOGH ANDERSEN (tenor) varsonofiev, his servant
Pastor JORGEND DITLEVSEN (baritone)
CHRISTIAN CHRISTIANSEN (bass)
Susanna, an Old Believer
LONE KOPPEL (mezzo-soprano)
Servant ...ARNE ELKROG (baritone) atreshnev .....POUL ELMING (tenor) DANISH RADIO CHORUS
AND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA conducted by YURI AHRONOVICH
(Danish Radio recording)
('Sorochintsy Fair' Thursday 2.00pm