English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. This famous opera has had a chequered performance history, and Professor Laurel E. Fay points out that the interpretation of the opera depends on which edition is used. Robert Oldani introduces the "Boris problem": Pushkin's play was not an obvious choice for a young composer, since it had been banned for forty years, and it is the Russian people, rather than any single character, who is the protagonist. Alex de Jonge examines its uniquely Russian character and notes the unsettling parallels of the history of old Russia with today. Nigel Osborne's comparison of the Rimsky-Korsakov and Mussorgsky versions highlights their individual qualities.

Boris Godunov: (English National Opera Guide 11)

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich

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Overture Publishing

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Mussorgsky's last opera dramatizes the conspiracy of Prince Khovansky against Tsar Peter the Great, and the epic ends with the exile, murder and suicide of all the power groups of old Russia. When Musorgsky died in 1881, it was unfinished, and Rimsky-Korsakov completed it; Ravel and Stravinsky made another version for Diaghilev in 1911; in 1959 Shostakovich went back to the original and rediscovered a masterpiece. Caryl Emerson offers a provocative reading of Mussorgsky's achievement. Gerard McBurney relates the non-European inspiration in the score to Mussorgsky's conception of history, while Rosamund Bartlett describes the cultural impetus for his historical vision.

Khovanshchina (The Khovansky Affair): (English National Opera Guide 48) (Opera Guides)

Khovanchtchina: (The Khovanskys) a National Music Drama in 5 Acts

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Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay

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Boris Godunov (Libretto) (Russian Edition)

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Khovanchtchina  The Khovanskys : a national music drama in five acts   This book, "Khovanchtchina", by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky,  is a replication of a book originally published before 1913. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjoy it in a form as close to the original as possible.

Khovanchtchina

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