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Boris Godunov [videorecording (DVD)] / music and libretto by Modest Mussorgsky, after Pushkin ; the Royal Opera House production by Andrei Tarkovsky.

by Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881.

Philips, [2002], p1993.

DVD 792.542 B644m

Boris Fyodorovich Godunov, Czar of Russia, 1551 or 2-1605 -- Drama.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

2 videodiscs (221 min.) : digital surround DTS sd., col. ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet (46 p.)

Opera in 4 acts with a prologue.

Based on Pushkin's historical tragedy of the same name and Karamzin's History of the Russian state.

Performed in the ed. by David Lloyd-Jones, published by Oxford University Press.

Program notes by Irina Brown and John Warrack, and synopsis in English, French and German (47 p.) in container.

"The complete 1872 version, filmed at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1990."

Sung in Russian; subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese.

A Virgin Broadcasting/BBC TV/Royal Opera House co-production in association with the Decca Music Group Limited and St. Petersburg Television ; Director, Stephen Lawless ; Director for television, Humphrey Burton.

Robert Lloyd, Olga Borodina, Alexei Steblianko, Sergei Leiferkus ; supporting singers ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Kirov Opera ; Valery Gergiev, conductor.

The action takes place between 1598 and 1605. It concerns the reign of Tsar Boris Godunov who has murdered the Tsarevich Dmitri in order to obtain the succession, and the challenge made to it by the Pretender Dmitri.

Televised operas.

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Boris Godunov (1872)

Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837. Boris Godunov.

Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1766-1826. Istori︠i︡a gosudarstva rossiĭskogo.

Tarkovskiĭ, Andreĭ Arsenʹevich, 1932-1986.

Lawless, Stephen.

Burton, Humphrey, 1931-

Lloyd, Robert, 1940-

Borodina, Olʹga.

Stebl︠i︡anko, Alekseĭ.

Leĭferkus, Sergeĭ, 1946-

Gergiev, Valery, 1953-

Royal Opera House (London, England)

Mariinskiĭ teatr (1991- ). Orkestr.

Mariinskiĭ teatr (1991- ). Khor.

Virgin Broadcasting.

British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.

Decca Music Group.

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