Music | Modest Mussorgsky |
Libretto | Modest Mussorgsky |
Music Director and Conductor | Alexander Lazarev |
Stage Director | Alexander Titel |
Choreographer | Larisa Alexandrova |
Set Designer | Vladimir Arefiev |
Costume Designer | Maria Danilova |
Lighting Designer | Damir Ismagilov |
Principal Chorus Master | Stanislav Lykov |
Amateur Music-Dramatic Club in Kononov Auditorium, St. Petersburg
Premiere of the production: February 18, 2015
Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko
Moscow Academic Music Theatre
Orchestration by Dmitry Shostakovich
The finale of the opera by Vladimir Kobekin
Hey, what if Mussorgianin should up and burst out upon Mother Rus’! Picking black earth is nothing new for me, moreover, it is not nourished earth I want, but raw stuff; not to get acquainted with the folk I thirst for but to fraternize: scary, yet so good! So what then? Don’t I know, really, what to givean echo to? Nay, I don’t yet sense where strength is hidden, where the truth clouds the eyes, and, moreover, the nostrils; can’t help sneezing with vexation!
The black earth’s strength will manifest itself when you dig down to the very bottom. Now picking the black earth is only possible with a tool made of stuff that is foreign to it. And they did, didn’t they, pick Mother Rus’ in the late 17th century with such a tool, picked her so that she didn’t immediately recognize what she was picked with, and, just like the black earth, opened up and began to breathe. And so she did, poor dear, accept all kinds of councilors of State, both active and privy; and so she was, the long-suffering one, given no chance to gather her wits and to think where she was pushing forward to. Those unwilling to consent and the disconcerted were executed – that’s where the strength had been! Yet the police and administration office is alive, and detection is the same as it had been under those departments; only the time has changed: the councilors of State, both active and privy, prevent the black earth fr om breathing. The past in the present – this is what my task is.
“We’ve moved forward” – stuff and nonsense; we’re still where we had been. Paper and book have indeed moved, but we are where we had been. Until the people see for themselves what they are cooked into, until they themselves want to be cooked into this or that - we’re wh ere we had been!
M. Mussorgsky
An except from a letter to V. Stasov
June 1872
Music Director and Conductor |
Alexander Lazarev
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Prince Ivan Khovansky |
Andrey Valentiy
Dmitry Ulyanov
|
Prince Andrey Khovansky |
Nikolay Erokhin
Najmiddin Mavlyanov
|
Prince Vasiliy Golitsin |
Najmiddin Mavlyanov
Valery Mikitsky
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Boyar Fyodor Shaklovity |
Anton Zaraev
Alexey Shishlyaev
|
Dosifey |
Denis Makarov
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Marfa |
Ksenia Dudnikova
Natalia Zimina
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Emma |
Elena Guseva
Maria Makeeva
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Susanna |
Irina Vashchenko
Natalia Muradymova
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Scrivener |
Chingis Ayusheev
Evgeny Liberman
Valery Mikitsky
|
Kuzka |
Dmitry Polkopin
Artem Safronov
|
Streshnev |
Dmitry Kondratkov
Evgeny Liberman
Alexander Nesterenko
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ACT I
The morning after the Streltsy revolt.
Moscow comes back to normal after the rebellion that had shed much blood.
The report
Shaklovity dictates to a clerk the report letter in which he claims that the Khovanskys, father and son, were the instigators of the revolt.
Lists on a Pole
The clerk reads aloud the list of those perished during the revolt.
“The Big One is Coming!”
Prince Khovansky, head of the Streltsy, enters. He leads his squad to patrol the city of Moscow.
Andrei and Emma
Ivan Khovansky’s son, Andrei, pursues a German girl, Emma, who caught his attention. Marfa,
Andrei’s former lover, protects the girl.
“Why Raving?..”
Ivan Khovansky returns. He sees the German beauty and commands the Streltsy to take her to his chambers. Andrei does not want to surrender the girl to his father. The two are ready to engage in a fight, but Dosifei, leader of the schismatics, stops them. He appeals to them to forget all strives and get united in the face of upcoming misfortune –the division and downfall of Russia.
ACT II
Fortune-telling
Marfa, who has been summoned to Prince Golitsyn, an all-powerful minion of the Czarevna Sophia’s, foretells his forthcoming disgrace and exile. The frightened Golitsyn gives an order to have Marfa drowned.
Conspiracy of the Princes
Prince Ivan Khovansky comes to Golitsyn followed by Dosifei, who in his layman past was known as Prince Myshetsky. Each one of them tries to claim the power, and they fail to agree on common actions against the young Czar Peter. Marfa comes back and tells how she had been rescued by Peter’s soldiers. Shaklovity brings a frightening piece of news: Czar Peter has received the report against the Khovanskys and ordered an investigation.
INTERMISSION
ACT III
“My Love - the Terrible Torture…”
Susanna, a schismatic, judges Marfa for giving in to sinful temptation. Dosifei stands for Marfa.
“The Streltsy’s Nest Sleeps”
Shaklovity comes to the Streltsy Borough. He tries to imagine what kind of power might save Russia from her enemies.
“Father, Father, Come Out to Us…”
The Streltsy wake up. A clerk brings news of Peter’s troops approaching. The Streltsy call for Ivan Khovansky, wishing to hear his order. But Khovansky refuses to lead the Streltsy into battle and orders them to disperse to their homes.
ACT IV
Punishment
Ivan Khovansky is ill at ease even though he feels safe inside his own house. A minion of Prince Golitsyn’s brings Khovansky a warning, but he brushes it aside and consequently falls victim of sent assassins. The disgraced Prince Golitsyn gets exiled. The Streltsy who had already mounted the scaffold are pardoned by Czar Peter.
ACT V
The Skit
Having gathered together the schismatics commit self-immolation.
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