[Met Performance] CID:152890

Metropolitan Opera Premiere, New Production

Khovanshchina
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, February 16, 1950


In English (Translation: Rosa Newmarch)



Khovanshchina (1)
Modest Mussorgsky | Modest Mussorgsky
Ivan Khovansky
Lawrence Tibbett

Andrei Khovansky
Brian Sullivan

Marfa
Risë Stevens

Dosifei
Jerome Hines

Golitsin
Charles Kullman

Shaklovity
Robert Weede

Scrivener
Leslie Chabay

Emma
Anne Bollinger

Susanna
Polyna Stoska

Kouzka
Clifford Harvuot

Strelets
Emery Darcy

Strelets
Denis Harbour

Strelets
Philip Kinsman

Varsonofiev
Osie Hawkins

Dance
Tilda Morse

Dance
Peggy Smithers


Conductor
Emil Cooper


Director
Dino Yannopoulos

Designer
Mstislav Dobujinsky

Choreographer
Boris Romanoff





Khovanshchina received four performances this season.
In this production, the opera was presented in the edition orchestrated by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
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