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Boris Godunov-30 December 1952 Evening 7.00pm

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Opera: Performance details

Company: Covent Garden Opera Company
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Issay Dobrowen
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Charles Taylor
Cast
Nikitich
a police officer 		Ronald Lewis
Mitiukha
a peasant 		Hubert Littlewood
Andrei Shchelkalof
Secretary of the Council 		Geraint Evans
Pimen
a monk and chronicler 		Norman Walker
The Pretender
named Grigory, afterwards the false Dmitri (a novice in Pimen's cave) 		Edgar Evans
Prince Vassili Ivanovich Shuisky
a courtier 		Parry Jones
Boris Godunov
Tsar of Russia 		Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
The Hostess of the Inn Edith Coates
Varlaam
vagabond monk 		Howell Glynne
Missail
vagabond monk 		David Tree
Feodor
The Tsar's child 		Barbara Howitt
Xenia
The Tsar's child 		Iris Kells
Xenia's Nurse Valetta Iacopi
The Boyar in attendance Emlyn Jones
Marina Mnishek
a Polish princess 		Constance Shacklock
The Boyar Khruschof Thomas Fletcher
Lavitsky
Jesuit 		Bryan Drake
Chernikofsky
Jesuit 		Ronald Lewis
The Simpleton William McAlpine
Boyars, their children, Guards, Soldiers, Officers, Polish Noblemen and Ladies, Polish Girls, Wandering Mendicants, the people of Moscow The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
Children from Kingsland Central School
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: Rosa Newmarch
Durations: Act I: 7.07-7.52pm, Act II: 8.12-9.02pm, Act III: 9.22-10.00pm, Act IV: 10.17-10.43pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme for 30 December 1952 (in Royal Opera House Collections)

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