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Boris Godunov-15 December 1965 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Edward Downes
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Nikitich
a police officer 		Eric Garrett
Mitiukh
a peasant 		David Winnard
Shchelkalov
Secretary of the Council 		Victor Godfrey
Prince Vassili Ivanovich Shuisky
a courtier 		John Lanigan
Boris Feodorovich 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) 		Alberto Remedios
The Hostess of the Inn Elizabeth Bainbridge
Varlaam
vagabond monk 		Michael Langdon
Missail
vagabond monk 		Robert Bowman
Frontier Guard Eric Garrett
Feodor
the Tsar's child 		Janet Coster
Xenia
the Tsar's child 		Elizabeth Robson
Xenia's Nurse Noreen Berry
The Boyar in Attendance Arthur Cobbin
Marina Mnishek
a Polish princess 		Yvonne Minton
Rangoni Otakar Kraus
The Idiot Kenneth MacDonald
The Boyar Khrushchov Handel Owen
Chernikovsky
Jesuit 		Ronald Lewis
Lavitsky
Jesuit 		Dennis Wicks
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 The Latymer School (Edmonton)
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: Russian
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 15 December 1965 (in Royal Opera House Collections)