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Boris Godunov-8 October 1948 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 Karl Rankl
Chorus Master Douglas Robinson
Leader Joseph Shadwick
Cast
Nikitich
a police officer 		Geraint Evans
Mitiukha
a peasant 		Hubert Littlewood
Andrei Shchelkalof
Secretary of the Council 		Rhydderch Davies
Boris Godunov
Tsar of Russia 		Paolo Silveri
Feodor
his child 		Barbara Britton
Xenia
his child 		Adele Leigh
Pimen
a monk and chronicler 		David Franklin
The Pretender
named Grigory, afterwards the false Dmitri (a novice in Pimen's cave) 		Edgar Evans
The Hostess of the Inn Edith Coates
Varlaam
vagabond monk 		Howell Glynne
Missail
vagabond monk 		David Tree
Police Officer Ronald Lewis
Xenia's nurse Valetta Iacopi
The Boyar in attendance Emlyn Jones
Prince Vassili Ivanovich Shuisky
a courtier 		Hubert Norville
Marina Mnishek
a Polish princess 		Constance Shacklock
Rangoni
a Jesuit emissary 		Tom Williams
The Boyar Khrushchof Thomas Fletcher
Lavitsky
a Jesuit 		Rhydderch Davies
Chernikofsky
a Jesuit 		Ronald Lewis
The Simpleton Richard 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 Orchestra
Language: English
Translator: M D Calvocoressi
Durations: Prologue scene 1: 7.03-7.14pm, Prologue scene 2: 7.16-7.25pm, Act I scene 1: 7.40-7.53pm, Act I scene 2: 7.55-8.13pm, Act II scene 1: 8.46-9.13pm, Act II scene 2: 9.17-9.27pm, Act II scene 3: 9.27-9.41pm, Act III scene 1: 10.03-10.26pm, Act III scene 2: 10.30-10.45pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme and stage manager's report for 8 October 1948 (in Royal Opera House Collections)