[Met Performance] CID:99260



Boris Godunov
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, April 12, 1928 Matinee



In Italian



Boris Godunov (82)
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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
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.

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