Boris Godunov: Opera by Mussorgsky
About the Event
Allow yourself to be reminded that truth, honor, and the burden of power are ageless, in Mussorgsky's great political opera. Peter Konwitschny makes an overdue debut at the Vienna Volksoper in a new production, featuring Albert Pesendorfer in the title role.
The Tsar is dead, long live the Tsar! But who should that title belong to? The nobleman Boris, favored by the police, but suspected of killing the son of the former Tsar in his quest for power, and seemingly reluctant to take the throne? The man who proclaims himself to be that 'murdered' heir, miraculously hale and hearty? What is truth, and what falsehood? Does power inevitably corrupt? Mussorgsky's themes are as potent now as at the times of the opera's composition, and the historical events that inspired it.
Sung in German, with German subtitles.
Cast / Production
Conductor Jac van Steen
Director Peter Konwitschny
Stage design and costumes Okarina Peter
Set design and costumes Timo Dentler
Choir production Holger Kristen
Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia Albert Pesendorfer
Fyodor, his son Ghazal Kazemi
Xenia, his daughter Elisabeth Schwarz
Nurse Sulie Girardi
Prince Wassili Schuiskij Carsten Süss
Schtschelkalow, Secret Scribe Günter Haumer
Pimen, chronicler and hermit Stefan Cerny
Grigori Otrepjew, the fake Dimitri Vincent Schirrmacher
Warlaam, runaway mendicant monk Martin Winkler
Missail, runaway beggar monk Christian Drescher
Tavern Keeper Martina Mikelić
First Police Officer Yasushi Hirano
Second Police Officer Daniel Ohlenschläger
God's Fool Karl‐Michael Ebner
Leibbojar Thomas Sigwald
Mitjuch Alexander Pinderak
