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Boris Godunov-31 October 1983 Evening 6.30pm

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Opera: Performance details

Company: The Royal Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Original season
Conductor Claudio Abbado
Acting Chorus Master Nina Walker
Leader John Brown
Cast
Nikitich
a police officer 		Paul Hudson
Mitukha
a peasant 		John Gibbs
Andrei Shchelkalov
secretary of the Council of Boyars 		Jonathan Summers
Prince Vassily Ivanovich Shuisky
a courtier 		Philip Langridge
Boris Godunov
Tsar of Russia 		Robert Lloyd
Pimen
a hermit chronicler 		Gwynne Howell
Grigory Otrepiev
a young monk, later appearing as 		Michel Svetlev
The Pretender Dmitry Michel Svetlev
The Hostess of the Inn Elizabeth Bainbridge
Missail
a vagabond monk 		Francis Egerton
Varlaam
a vagabond monk 		Aage Haugland
Frontier Guard Donald Adams
Xenia
Boris's daughter 		Joan Rodgers
Fyodor
Boris's son and heir 		Fiona Kimm
Xenia's Nurse Marta Szirmay
The Boyar in attendance Anthony Smith
Marina Mniszek
daughter of the Voyevode of Sandomir 		Eva Randová
Rangoni
a Jesuit in disguise 		John Shirley-Quirk
The Simpleton Patrick Power
Khrushchov
a boyar 		John Kerr
Czernikowski
a Jesuit 		John Gibbs
Lavicki
a Jesuit 		William Mackie
Boyars, their children, Guards, Soldiers, Officers, Polish Nobility, Girls of Sandomir, Pilgrims, People of Moscow, Urchins, Vagabonds The Royal Opera Chorus
Children from Spencer Park School
Children from The John Paul Foundation
The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Language: Russian
Durations: Prologue, Acts I and II: 6.35-8.15pm, Acts III and IV: 8.47-10.17pm
Information source: Royal Opera House programme and stage manager's report for 31 October 1983 (in Royal Opera House Collections)