by MUSSORGSKY based on a play by PUSHKIN Robin Ray introduces the Bolshoi Opera production
This sumptuous production, in two prologues and four acts, chronicles the life and death of the early 17th-century Tsar.
Constructed on an epic scale and revised by RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, the action ranges from the Kremlin in Moscow to ancient Russian monasteries and a castle in Poland. with Yevgeny Nesterenko as Boris Godunov and SOLOISTS, CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA Of the BOLSHOI OPERA conducted by Boris Khaikin
In the intervals at 8.45 and 10.0*
ROBIN RAY talks to DAVID LLOYD JONES about the historical and musical background to the opera.
Producer LEONID BARATOV
Designer FYDOR FYOKOROVSKY
Directed for Soviet Television by ALEKSEY BARANNIKOV