[Met Performance] CID:127140
Boris Godunov {92} Matinee Broadcast ed. Metropolitan Opera House: 12/9/1939., Broadcast
(Broadcast)
Metropolitan Opera House
December 9, 1939 Matinee Broadcast
In Italian
BORIS GODUNOV {92}
Mussorgsky--Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov...........Ezio Pinza
Prince Shuisky..........Alessio De Paolis
Pimen...................Nicola Moscona
Grigory.................Charles Kullman
Marina..................Kerstin Thorborg
Rangoni.................Leonard Warren
Varlaam.................Norman Cordon
Simpleton...............Nicholas Massue
Shchelkalov.............George Cehanovsky
Innkeeper...............Doris Doe
Missail.................Giordano Paltrinieri
Officer.................John Gurney
Xenia...................Marita Farell
Feodor..................Irra Petina
Nurse...................Anna Kaskas
Lavitsky................Wilfred Engelman
Chernikovsky............Arnold Gabor
Boyar in Attendance.....Nicholas Massue
Act III, Scene 2 Polonaise - Arranged by Boris Romanoff
Corps de Ballet
Conductor...............Ettore Panizza
Orchestration by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Director................Leopold Sachse
Set designer............Alexander Golovine
Set designer............Alexander Benois [Polish Scene only]
Costume designer........Ivan Bilibine
Choreographer...........Boris Romanoff
Translation by M.Delines, E. Palermi, G. Pardo
Synopsis of Scenes
Act I, Scene 1: The wall of Novodievitchi Convent, in the Great Environs of Moscow
Act I, Scene 2: A cell in the Convent of Miracles
Act I, Scene 3: The square between the two Cathedrals of the Assumption and of the Archangels
Act II, Scene 1: An inn on the frontier of Lithuania
Act II, Scene 2: Apartments of the Czar in the Kremlin at Moscow
Act III, Scene 1: Room of Marina in the Castle of Michek, Poland
Act III, Scene 2: Garden of the Castle
Act IV, Scene 1: The forest of Kromy
Act V, Scene 2: Hall of the Duma in the Kremlin