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Boris Godunov-13 May 1971 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
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
Mitiukha
a peasant 		Duncan Reece
Shchelkalov
Secretary of the Council 		Hugh Sheehan
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) 		William McAlpine
The Hostess of the Inn Elizabeth Bainbridge
Varlaam
vagabond monk 		Michael Langdon
Missail
vagabond monk 		David Lennox
Frontier Guard Eric Garrett
Feodor
the Tsar's child 		Delia Wallis
Xenia
the Tsar's child 		Kiri Te Kanawa
Xenia's Nurse Noreen Berry
The Boyar in Attendance Arthur Cobbin
Marina Mnishek
a Polish princess 		Josephine Veasey
Rangoni Otakar Kraus
The Idiot Robert Thomas
The Boyar Khrushchov Handel Owen
Chernikovsky
Jesuit 		George Macpherson
Lavitsky
Jesuit 		Hugh Sheehan
Boyars, their children, Guards, Soldiers, Officers, Polish Noblemen and Ladies, Polish Girls, Wandering Mendicants, the people of Moscow. The Royal Opera Chorus
Children from St Clement Danes School (London)
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Language: Russian
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 13 May 1971 (in Royal Opera House Collections)