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Boris Christoff Dimiter Uzunov Evelyn Lear Boris Christoff Boris Christoff John Lanigan Milen Paunov Anton Diakov Ana Alexieva Ekterina Georgieva Kiril Dulgerov Andre Cluytens Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire: CD: EMI Classics Cat: 5 67877-2 Christoff performed the three bass roles of Boris, Pimen and Varlaam. 1962 Ivan Petrov
Boris Godunov (Russian: Борис Годунов, romanized: Borís Godunóv listen ⓘ) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg , Russia.
He was to remain principal bass at the Met until 1974, adding roles such as Boris Godunov (in English) and Gurnemanz in Parsifal (in German), and singing all the major roles of the bass repertoire. His debut at the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden , was in 1950, and he appeared there regularly until the mid-1970s.
Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина, IPA: [xɐˈvanʲɕːɪnə] ⓘ, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky.
Some of his performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London were recorded live in the 1920s, including a haunting version of the "Death of Boris" from Boris Godunov. His last disc, made in Tokyo in 1936, was of the famous The Song of the Volga Boatmen. Many of his recordings were issued in the United States by RCA Victor.
Boris Godunov: 1868-10: 1869-12-15: Original version; based on the drama Boris Godunov (1825) by Alexander Pushkin: Bobïl: 1870: 1870: Projected; to be based on the drama Hans und Grete (1868) by Friedrich Spielhagen; Marfa's Divination from Khovanshchina derives from sketches for this work Boris Godunov: 1871: 1872
Pictures at an Exhibition [a] is a piano suite in ten movements, plus a recurring and varied Promenade theme, written in 1874 by Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky.It is a musical depiction of a tour of an exhibition of works by architect and painter Viktor Hartmann put on at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, following his sudden death in the previous year.
He was the first North American to sing the title role of Boris Godunov at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War in 1960. [5] He frequently performed in English: Broadway show tunes and negro spirituals. He recorded many of his roles for RCA Victor, Columbia Records, and Decca.