[Met Performance] CID:99330
Boris Godunov {83} Lyric Theater, Baltimore, Maryland: 04/17/1928.
Baltimore, Maryland
April 17, 1928
In Italian
BORIS GODUNOV {83}
Mussorgsky--Mussorgsky
Boris Godunov...........Fyodor Chaliapin
Prince Shuisky..........Angelo Badà
Pimen...................Ezio Pinza
Grigory.................Armand Tokatyan
Marina..................Julia Claussen
Varlaam.................Paolo Ananian
Simpleton...............Alfio Tedesco
Nikitich................Louis D'Angelo
Shchelkalov.............George Cehanovsky
Innkeeper...............Henriette Wakefield
Missail.................Giordano Paltrinieri
Xenia...................Ellen Dalossy
Feodor..................Charlotte Ryan
Nurse...................Ina Bourskaya
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.]