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SKU:
BR.BES-3089
And
Final Version (1872/74) -
Opera in 4 Acts and
Prologue. Composed by
Modest Mussorgskij.
Arranged by Pawel Lamm.
Softcover. Bessel,
London. Opera; Music
theatre; Romantic.
Libretto. 48 pages.
Breitkopf and Haertel
#BES 3089. Published by
Breitkopf and Haertel
(BR.BES-3089).
ISBN
9790004610022. 0 x 0
inches.
Duration:
full evening
Text by
the composer after
Alexander Pushkins
Dramatic Chronic of Tsars
Boris and Grishka
Otrepiev and Nikolai
Karamsins History of the
Russian
Empire
Translation:
German (M. Hube), Engl.
(D. Lloyd-Jones)
Place and time:
Moscow and environment,
Court of the Novodevichy
Monastery, Tshudov
Monastery, Roadside Inn
near the Lithuanian
frontier, Tsar's Chamber
in Kremlin, Castle of
Sandomir, Kromy Forest,
1598-1605
Characte
rs: Boris Godunov
(baritone) - Feodor and
Xenia, his Children
(mezzo-soprano, soprano)
- Wet Nurse Xenias (alto)
- Prince Wassily
Ivanovitch Shuisky
(tenor) - Andrej
Schtschelkalov, Secret
Scribe (baritone) -
Pimen, Chronic Scribe
(bass) - Grigory
Otrepiev, later Dmitry
(tenor) - Marina
Mnischek, Wojewoden von
Sandomir's Daughter
(mezzo-soprano) -
Rangoni, Secret Jew
(bass) - Varlaam and
Missail, escaped Monks
(bass, tenor) -Roadside
Inn Landlady
(mezzo-soprano) - A
Simpleton (tenor) -
Nikititsh, Church
Advocate (bass) - a Boyar
(tenor) - Boyar
Chrushtschov (tenor) -
Mitjucha, Farmer
(baritone) - Lowitzki and
Tschernjakowski, Jesuits
(basses)
The
Original version of
1868/69 consists of seven
scenes in one prologue
and three acts: 1.
Courtyard of the
Novodevichy monastery -
2. Square in the Kremlin.
Coronation scene. - 3.
Pimen's cell in the
Chudov monastery - 4. Inn
scene - 5. A room in the
Czar's apartments in the
Kremlin - 6. Outside St.
Basil's Cathedral - 7.
Council of Boyars. Death
of Boris.
When the
work was rejected by St.
Petersburg's Mariinsky
Theater Mussorgsky
followed the advice of
friends and revised the
opera. In the Final
version of 1871/72 he
expanded the fifth scene
scrapped the sixth and
added three new scenes so
that the opera now
consisted of nine scenes
in one prologue and four
acts:
1.- 4. see
1868/69 - 5. A room in
the Czar's apartments in
the Kremlin - 6. Marina's
boudoir in Sandomir - 7.
Palace park in Sandomir -
8. Council of Boyars.
Death of Boris - 9. In
the forest of Kromy
(Revolution
scene)
The score
published under the
supervision of Pavel Lamm
in the Complete Edition
(1928) and the piano
reduction (1931) contain
the parts of both
versions transmitted in
score as well as in the
piano reduction all the
changes made by
Mussorgsky in his piano
reduction of 1874. The
performance material can
thus be used for a
production of either the
original version or the
final version according
to need.