Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov

Musorgsky left us two versions of Boris Godunov, presenting different conceptions of Russia’s troubled history, but both resonate with the world today…

A lecture by Marina Frolova-Walker, Visiting Professor of Russian Music
22 January 2019 1pm (UK time)
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-and-events/musorgsky-boris-godunov

Musorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov (1872) is set in the ‘Time of Troubles’, using Pushkin’s incisive verse tragedy on the chaotic period preceding the establishment of the Romanovs. Such a work was bound to draw the attention of the censors, and Musorgsky’s two versions of the opera also led to various ‘improved’ versions that conflated scenes from each. Despite all the interference it has suffered, in any of its forms it remains a formidable exploration of power, as well as a highly moving personal drama.

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