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Boris Godunov-31 October 1958 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Rafael Kubelik
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Nikitich
a police officer 		Forbes Robinson
Mitiukha
a peasant 		David Allen
Andrei Shchelkalov
Secretary of the Council 		Geraint Evans
Prince Vassili Ivanovich Shuisky
a courtier 		John Lanigan
Boris Godunov
Tsar of Russia 		Boris Christoff
Pimen
a monk and chronicler 		Joseph Rouleau
The Pretender, named Grigory, afterwards the false Dmitri
(a novice in Pimen's cave) 		Josip Gostic
The Hostess of the Inn Edith Coates
Varlaam
vagabond monk 		David Kelly
Missail
vagabond monk 		David Tree
Frontier Guard Forbes Robinson
Feodor
the Tsar's child 		Josephine Veasey
Xenia
the Tsar's child 		Joan Carlyle
Xenia's Nurse Noreen Berry
The Boyar in Attendance Robert Bowman
Marina Mnishek
a Polish princess 		Regina Resnik
Rangoni
a Jesuit Monk 		Otakar Kraus
The Simpleton Duncan Robertson
The Boyar Khrushchov Thomas Fletcher
Lavitsky
Jesuit 		Rhydderch Davies
Tchernikovsky
Jesuit 		Ronald Lewis
Boyars, their children, Guards, Soldiers, Officers, Polish Noblemen and Ladies, Polish Girls, Wandering Mendicants, the people of Moscow. The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
The Covent Garden Opera Ballet
Children from Edith Cavell Secondary School
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Notes: In the programme, David Kelly and David Tree's roles have been transposed. They are correct on this performance record.
Language: Russian
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 31 October 1958 (in Royal Opera House Collections)