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Boris Godunov-6 April 1991 Evening

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Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Revival
Conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Chorus Director Robin Stapleton
Leader John Brown
Cast
Nikitich
a police officer 		Colin Iveson
Mityukha
a peasant 		John Hall
Andrei Shchelkalov
secretary of the Council of Boyars 		David Wilson-Johnson
Prince Vassily Ivanovich Shuisky
a courtier 		Robert Tear
Boris Godunov
Tsar of Russia 		Paata Burchuladze
Pimen
a hermit chronicler 		Gwynne Howell
Grigory Otrepiev
a young monk, who later appears as 		Paolo Kŭdriavchenko
The Pretender Dmitry Paolo Kŭdriavchenko
Hostess of the Inn Elizabeth Bainbridge
Missail
a vagabond monk 		John Dobson
Varlaam
a vagabond monk 		Eric Garrett
Frontier guard Mark Beesley
Xenia
Boris's daughter 		Catriona Smith
Fyodor
Boris's son and heir 		Susan Bickley
Xenia's nurse Karen Shelby
Boyar in attendance John Winfield
Marina Mniszek
daughter of the Voyevoda of Sandomir 		Eva Randová
Rangoni
a Jesuit in disguise 		Stafford Dean
Simpleton Robin Leggate
Khrushchov
a boyar 		John Kerr
Chernikovsky
a Jesuit 		John Hall
Lavitsky
a Jesuit 		Alan Jones
Boyars, guards, soldiers, officers, Polish nobility, ladies of Sandomir, pilgrims, people of Moscow, urchins, vagabonds The Royal Opera Chorus
Extra Chorus
Actors
Dancers
Children from St Clement Danes School
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Language: Russian
Information source: Royal Opera House cast sheet for 6 April 1991 (in Royal Opera House Collections)