You need to accept cookies to get access to the professional section
Opera in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. Moscow, late 17th century. The death of the young Tsar Fyodor III has left Russia with a crisis of succession. Supported by Prince Ivan Khovansky, commander of the streltsy guards, Fyodor’s sickly brother Ivan and his half-brother Peter (later the Great) have been installed as joint rulers, with their older sister Sophia acting as regent. Sophia has allied herself with Prince Vasily Golitsyn, a powerful courtier and liberal politician, who is also her lover.
Khovanshchina is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was unfinished and unperformed when the composer died in 1881.Like Mussorgsky's earlier Boris Godunov, Khovanshchina deals with an episode in Russian history, first brought to the composer's attention by his friend Vladimir Stasov. It concerns the rebellion of Prince Ivan Khovansky, the Old Believers, and the Streltsy against Peter the Great, who was attempting to institute Westernizing reforms to Russia. Peter succeeded, the rebellion was crushed and (in the opera, at least) Khovansky's followers committed mass suicide.
Sergei Aleksashkin (Ivan Prince Khovansky), Vladimir Galouzine (Prince Andrei Khovansky ),Yevgeny Akimov (Prince Vasily Golitzin), Yevgeny Nikitin (Shaklovity), Vladimir Vaneyev (Dosifei), Olga Borodina (Marfa)
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev, Stage Director: Leonid Baratov (1960), New stage version: Yuri Alexandrov (2000), Set Designer: Fyodor Fyodorovsky, Director: Yuri Laptev, Revival Designer:Vyacheslav Okunev, Revival Costume Designer: Tatiana Noginova, Lighting Designer: Vladimir Lukasevich, Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko, Musical,Preparation: Marina Mishuk, Dances choreographed by Fyodor Lopukhov, Ballet Coach: Dmitry Korneyev
Russian
English, French
Production compagny : Telmondis
Coproduction compagny : Mariinsky Theatre, Mezzo, in association with France Televisions, Kultura TV
Running Time : 1x205'
Production Year : 2012
Distribution compagny : Telmondis Distribution
Video Format : HD CAM, Digibeta 16/9