Program

Modest Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov

Prologue: Andante

Prologue: "Nu, shtozh vy?"

Prologue: "Na kovo ty nas pokidaesh"

Prologue: "Mityukh, a Mityukh, chevo oryam?"

Prologue: "Pravoslavnyye"

Prologue: "Slava tebye"

Prologue: "Da zdrastvstvuet tsar Boris Feodorovich!"

Prologue: "Skorbit dusha!"

I: "Yeshcho odno poslyednye skazanye"

I: "Bozhe krepky, pravy"

I: "Nye syetuy, brat"

I: "Poymala ya"

I: "Shtozh ty prizadumalsa"

I: "Kak vo gorodye bylo vo Kazane"

I: "Kak yedet yon"

I: "Vy shto za lyudi?"

I: "Chudova monsatyrya nedostoyny"

II: "Gdye ty, zhenikh moy"

II: "Akhty!... Chevo?"

II: "Dostig ya vyshey vlasti"

II: "Veliky gosudor, chelom byu"

II: "Ukh! tyazhelo! Day duk perevedu"

III: "Na Vislye lazurnoy"

III: "Dovol'no! Krosotka panna blagodorna"

III: "Skuchno Marinye"

III: "Krasoyu svoyeyu pleni samozvantsa!"

III: "V polnoch... v sadu... u fontana"

III: "Tsaryevich!... Oryat'za mnoy!"

III: "Smiryenny, greshny bogomolyets"

III: "Vashey strasi ya nue vyeryu"

III: "O kak tomitel'no i vyalo"

III: "O tsarevitch, umolyayu"

IV: "Shto, otoshla, obyednya"

IV: "Trrr, Trrr, Trrr, Trrr... Zhelyezny kolpak"

IV: "Kormilyets-batushka, poday Khrista radi"

IV: "Shtozh? podyom na golosa, boyare"

IV: "Pozapozdal malyenko"

IV: "Kto govorit: ubiytsa?"

IV: "Odnazdy, v vecherniy chas"

IV: "Proschay, moy syn"

IV: "Pogrebal'ny zvon!"

IV: "Voli suyda! Na pyen sadi"

IV: "Gayda! Rashkodilas, razgulyalas"

IV: "Lyeytas, lyeytas, slyozy gorkiye"

Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov

Kirill Serebrennikov (stage director), Vasily Petrenko (conductor) – With Tomasz Konieczny (Boris Godunov), David van Laar (Feodor), Inna Demenkova (Xenia)...

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Cast

Kirill Serebrennikov — Stage director, set designer, costume designer

Evgeny Kulagin — Choreographer, co-stage director

Olga Pavliuk — Associate set designer

Tatiana Dolmatovskaya — Costumes designer

Sergey Kucher — Lighting designer

Yurii Karikh — Video designer

Daniil Orlov — Dramaturgy

Tomasz Konieczny — Boris Godunov

Program notes

Award-winning stage director Kirill Serebrennikov presents a stunningly inventive production of Mussorgsky’s emblematic opera Boris Godunov, bringing the timeless Russian work into the modern age. Maestro Vasily Petrenko makes his debut with the Dutch National Opera, conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Chorus of Dutch National Opera. Mussorgsky’s libretto, based on Pushkin’s play of the same name and modified by the composer himself, is performed by a stellar cast of vocalists, including leading bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny — known for his ability to “get into the skin of his characters both vocally and in his acting” — who takes on the iconic main role for the first time. Countertenor David van Laar and soprano Inna Demenkova star alongside Konieczny in this highly topical masterwork whose themes of power, persecution, and politics draw striking parallels with today’s world.

Photo © Marco Borggreve

Boris Godunov: music by Modest Mussorgsky, libretto by Modest Mussorgsky, edited by David Lloyd-Jones
© by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd on behalf of Oxford University Press

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