Modest Mussorgsky
Libretto by the composer after Alexander Pushkin

Opera in four parts
Child murder, scheming monks and a tsar lapsing into madness – Modest Mussorgsky spread the thematic arc wide in his choral opera, which he began to work on from 1868, and with which he attempted to awaken an awareness of his own time through the indirect route of a historic story. As an artist of the 19th century, he was driven by the psychology of the masses. Thus, in Boris Godunov, alongside the hero of the title, the main role is actually taken primarily by the Russian people, rejoicing, starving, demanding and questioning. "Uncovering the fine features of human nature and the mass of humanity, stubbornly drilling in these unexplored regions and conquering them – this is the mission of the true artist. Onward to new shores!“

In Russian with German surtitles

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Audio-visual live broadcast on Max-Joseph-Platz
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Conductor Kent Nagano 26./30. July 2013  
Kirill Petrenko 16./20./23./28./31. Mar. 2014  
Production Calixto Bieito   
Set Rebecca Ringst   
Costumes Ingo Krügler   
Lighting Michael Bauer   
Dramaturgy Andrea Schönhofer   
Chöre Sören Eckhoff   

Boris Godunow Alexander Tsymbalyuk 26./30. July 2013  
Anatoli Kotscherga 16./20./23./28./31. Mar. 2014  
Fjodor Yulia Sokolik 26./30. July 2013  
Angela Brower 16./20./23./28./31. Mar. 2014  
Xenia Anna Virovlansky 26./30. July 2013  
Eri Nakamura 16./20./23./28./31. Mar. 2014  
Xenias Amme Heike Grötzinger   
Fürst Schuiskij Gerhard Siegel   
Andrej Schtschelkalow Markus Eiche   
Pimen Anatoli Kotscherga 26./30. July 2013  
Brindley Sherratt 16./20./23./28./31. Mar. 2014  
Grigorij Otrepjew Sergey Skorokhodov 26./30. July 2013  
Dmytro Popov 16./20./23./28./31. Mar. 2014  
Warlaam Vladimir Matorin   
Missail Ulrich Reß   
Schenkwirtin Margarita Nekrasova 26./30. July 2013  
Okka von der Damerau 16./20./23./28./31. Mar. 2014  
Gottesnarr Kevin Conners   
Nikititsch Goran Jurić   
Leibbojar Joshua Stewart 26./30. July 2013  
Dean Power 16./20./23./28./31. Mar. 2014  
Mitjucha Tareq Nazmi   
Hauptmann der Streifenwache Christian Rieger   

The Bavarian State Orchestra
The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera