[Met Performance] CID:99260
Boris Godunov {82} Matinee ed. Metropolitan Opera House: 04/12/1928.
Metropolitan Opera House
April 12, 1928 Matinee
In Italian
BORIS GODUNOV {82}
Mussorgsky--Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov...........Fyodor Chaliapin
Prince Shuisky..........Angelo Badà
Pimen...................Ezio Pinza
Grigory.................Mario Chamlee
Marina..................Jeanne Gordon [Last performance]
Varlaam.................Paolo Ananian
Simpleton...............Alfio Tedesco
Nikitich................Louis D'Angelo
Shchelkalov.............George Cehanovsky
Innkeeper...............Henriette Wakefield
Missail.................Giordano Paltrinieri
Xenia...................Ellen Dalossy
Feodor..................Mildred Parisette
Nurse...................Kathleen Howard [Last performance]
Lavitsky................Millo Picco
Chernikovsky............Vincenzo Reschiglian
Conductor...............Vincenzo Bellezza
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.]