[Met Performance] CID:88200
Boris Godunov {68} Metropolitan Opera House: 11/19/1924.
Metropolitan Opera House
November 19, 1924
In Italian
BORIS GODUNOV {68}
Mussorgsky--Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov...........Fyodor Chaliapin
Prince Shuisky..........Angelo Badà
Pimen...................Léon Rothier
Grigory.................Mario Chamlee
Marina..................Ina Bourskaya
Varlaam.................Paolo Ananian
Simpleton...............Giordano Paltrinieri
Nikitich................Louis D'Angelo
Shchelkalov.............Lawrence Tibbett
Innkeeper...............Henriette Wakefield
Missail.................Max Altglass
Xenia...................Ellen Dalossy
Feodor..................Raymonde Delaunois
Nurse...................Kathleen Howard
Khrushchov..............Unknown
Lavitsky................Millo Picco
Chernikovsky............Vincenzo Reschiglian
Conductor...............Gennaro Papi
Orchestration by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Director................Armando Agnini
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.]