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Boris Godunov-21 October 1950 Evening 7.00pm

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Opera: Performance details

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