[Met Performance] CID:79770
Boris Godunov {51} Metropolitan Opera House: 01/12/1922.
Metropolitan Opera House
January 12, 1922
In Italian
BORIS GODUNOV {51}
Mussorgsky--Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov...........Fyodor Chaliapin
Prince Shuisky..........Angelo Badà
Pimen...................Léon Rothier
Grigory.................Aureliano Pertile
Marina..................Margarete Matzenauer
Varlaam.................Paolo Ananian
Simpleton...............Giordano Paltrinieri
Nikitich................Louis D'Angelo
Shchelkalov.............Carl Schlegel
Innkeeper...............Marie Mattfeld
Missail.................Pietro Audisio
Xenia...................Grace Anthony
Feodor..................Raymonde Delaunois
Nurse...................Kathleen Howard
Lavitsky................Vincenzo Reschiglian
Chernikovsky............Vincenzo Reschiglian
Boyar in Attendance.....Giordano Paltrinieri
Conductor...............Gennaro Papi
Orchestration by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Director................Samuel Thewman
Set designer............Alexander Golovine
Set designer............Alexander Benois
Costume designer........Ivan Bilibine
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 II, Scene 3: Garden of the Castle of Michek
Act III, Scene 1: The forest of Kromy
Act III, Scene 2: Hall of the Duma in the Kremlin
[Chaliapin always sang Boris in Russian.]