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Boris Godunov - 21 October 1950 Evening 7.00pm
Opera:
Performance details
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Company: |
Covent Garden Opera Company |
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Venue: |
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London |
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Performance status: |
Original season |
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Conductor
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Warwick Braithwaite
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Chorus Master
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Douglas Robinson
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Leader
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Thomas Matthews
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Cast |
Nikitich
a police officer
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Geraint Evans |
Mitiukha
a peasant
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Hubert Littlewood |
Andrei Shchelkalof
Secretary of the Council
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Rhydderch Davies |
Boris Godunov
Tsar of Russia
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Ludwig Weber |
Pimen
a monk and chronicler
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Norman Walker |
The Pretender
named Grigory, afterwards the false Dmitri (a novice in Pimen's cave)
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Edgar Evans |
| The Hostess of the Inn
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Edith Coates |
Varlaam
vagabond monk
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Michael Langdon |
Missail
vagabond monk
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David Tree |
| Police Officer
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Ronald Lewis |
Feodor
The Tsar's child
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Monica Sinclair |
Xenia
The Tsar's child
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Adele Leigh |
| Xenia's nurse
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Jean Watson |
| The Boyar in attendance
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Emlyn Jones |
Prince Vassili Ivanovich Shuisky
a courtier
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Parry Jones |
Marina Mnishek
a Polish princess
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Constance Shacklock |
Rangoni
a Jesuit emissary
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John Cameron |
| The Boyar Khruschof
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Thomas Fletcher |
Lavitsky
Jesuit
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Rhydderch Davies |
Chernikofsky
Jesuit
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Ronald Lewis |
| The Simpleton
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Dennis Stephenson |
| Boyars, their children, Guards, Soldiers, Officers, Polish Noblemen and Ladies, Polish Girls, Wandering Mendicants, the people of Moscow
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The Covent Garden Opera Chorus |
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The Covent Garden Orchestra |
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Language: |
English |
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Translator: |
Rosa Newmarch |
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Durations: |
Prologue: 7.06-7.29pm, Act I: 7.46-8.23pm, Act II: 8.47-9.47pm, Act III: 10.04-10.49pm |
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Information source: |
Royal Opera House programme for 21 October 1950 (in Royal Opera House Collections) |