[Met Performance] CID:302150



Boris Godunov
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, October 8, 1990

Debut : Ted Huffman, John Horton Murray




Boris Godunov (239)
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Boris Godunov
Paata Burchuladze

Prince Shuisky
Philip Langridge

Pimen
Sergei Koptchak

Grigory
Gary Lakes

Marina
Stefania Toczyska

Rangoni
John Shirley-Quirk

Varlaam
Paul Plishka

Simpleton
Andrea Velis

Nikitich
Andrij Dobriansky

Mitiukha
James Courtney

Shchelkalov
Lenus Carlson

Innkeeper
Mignon Dunn

Missail
Charles Anthony

Officer
Philip Cokorinos

Xenia
Heidi Grant Murphy

Feodor
Ted Huffman [Debut]

Nurse
Sondra Kelly

Khrushchov
John Gilmore

Lavitsky
Dwayne Croft

Chernikovsky
Michael Forest

Boyar in Attendance
John Horton Murray [Debut]


Conductor
Emil Tchakarov


Director
August Everding

Set Designer
Ming Cho Lee

Costume Designer
Peter J. Hall

Lighting Designer
Gil Wechsler

Choreographer
George Balanchine





Boris Godunov received twelve performances this season.

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Review 1:

Barymore Laurence Scherer in unidentified publication
The Met's first ?Boris Godunov? of the season was equally mixed, the ragged appearance of the 16-year-old sets matched by the ragged ensemble under the Bulgarian conductor Emil Tchakarov. To be sure, Tchakarov had been engaged virtually at the last minute to replace Evgeni Svetlanov (who had to bow out when he discovered a scheduling conflict). In the title-role, the Georgian bass Paata Burchuladze had to contend not only with the ghost of the murdered Tsarevich Dmitri, but with the shade of the late Martti Talvela, around whose moving portrayal the production was originally created. In brief, the apparent sincerity of Burchuladze's work fails to offset his limitations, though the Times critic Donal Henahan praised the "convincing heft and rotundity of the voice itself,? and while many regard Burchuladze as worthy heir to the mantle of Chaliapin, Kipnis and Pinza. I fail to hear what all the fuss is about.

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