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Boris Godunov: Opéra National de Paris 2020

About the Event

Witness Ivo Van Hove's first production for the Opéra de Paris, Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov, at the Opéra Bastille, with René Pape in the title role.

In this work based on Pushkin's political fable, Mussorgsky offers a meditation on power and solitude, in which the Russian people are the main protagonists.

In Russian with French and English surtitles

Cast / Production

Conductor: Michael Schønwandt
Director: Ivo Van Hove
Set and lighting design: Jan Versweyveld
Costume design: An D’Huys
Dramaturgy: Jan Vandenhouwe
Chorus master: José Luis Basso

Boris Godounov: René Pape
Feodor: Evdokia Malevskaya
Xenia: Ruzan Mantashyan
The nanny: Elena Zaremba
Prince Chouiski: Andreas Conrad
Andrei Shchelkalov: Lauri Vasar
Pimène: Dmitry Belosselskiy
Grigory Otrepiev: Dmitry Golovnin
Varlaam: Evgeny Nikitin
Missaïl: Peter Bronder
The innkeeper: Elena Manistina
The innocent: Vasily Efimov
Mitioukha: Michal Partyka
A police officer: wojtek Smilek
A boyar, voice in the crowd: John Bernard

Orchestra and Chorus of the Paris National Opera

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