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Khovanshchina-6 July 2000 Evening 6.30pm

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Opera: Performance details

Company: The Kirov Opera
Venue: Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status: Visiting company
Conductor Valery Gergiev
Stage band conductor George Strautmann
Cast
Prince Ivan Khovansky
leader of the Streltsy 		Vladimir Vaneev
Prince Andrei Khovansky
his son 		Oleg Balashov
Marfa
an Old Believer 		Marianna Tarasova
Dosifei
leader of the Old Believers 		Gennady Bezzubenkov
Shaklovity
a Boyar 		Georgy Zastavny
Prince Vassily Golitsyn Alexei Steblianko
Scribe Konstantin Pluzhnikov
Emma
a girl from the German Quarter 		Lia Shevtsova
Streshnev
a young herald 		Fyodor Mozhaev
Kuzka
a Strelyets musketeer 		Vladimir Zhivopistsev
Varsonofiev
Golitsyn's confidant 		Yuri Laptev
Kleveret Leonid Liubavin
1st Strelyets Grigory Karasev
2nd Strelyets Fyodor Kuznetsov
Streltsy Yevgeny Fedotov
Streltsy Andrei Khramtsov
Streltsy Yuri Laptev
Streltsy Leonid Liubavin
Streltsy Ilya Bannik
Streltsy Viktor Vikhrov
Streltsy Mikhail Petrenko
Streltsy Vladimir Zhivopistsev
Persian dance
Favourite Persian Slave Elena Bazhenova
Artists of the Mariinsky Theatre
Orchestral solos
Clarinet Ivan Tersky
Cor anglais Leonid Sirotkin
The Russian people, Streltsy, Old Believers, serving girls, slaves, Ivan Khovansky's retinue, Peter the Great's bodyguards Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre
Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre
Language: Russian
Durations: Act I: 47 minutes, Interval: 25 minutes, Acts II and III: 73 minutes, Interval: 25 minutes, Act IV: 40 minutes, Interval: 25 minutes, Act V: 25 minutes
Information source: The Kirov Opera cast sheet for 6 July 2000 (in Royal Opera House Collections)