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Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina

0.0 172 mins Music   2012
EuroArts  
Director(s): Dmitri Tcherniakov Karina Fibich

Kent Nagano superbly masters the challenges presented by this score, shapes the dynamics with subtle intensity, and casts the score in a mellow glow. As Marfa, the spurned lover of Ivan Khovansky‘s son Andrei, Doris Soffel unfolds such a rich palette of sonorities, from the pathos of the lower ranges to shaded discant heights, that “one is tempted to speak of a Russian mezzo”. The final chorus, which Mussorgsky did not compose, is played in the orchestrally transparent version of Igor Stravinsky – the third great Russian composer who contributed to making “Khovanshchina“ a timeless, gripping stage work. With his stripped-down sets and historicising costumes, director Dmitri Tcherniakov, one of the new voices of contemporary Russian theatre, builds a bridge to the political present. A lesson in history and music!

Casts of Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina

Paata Burchuladze

as Ivan Khovansky

Klaus Florian Vogt

as Andrei Khovansky

John Daszak

as Golitsin

Valeri Alexejev

as Shaklovity

Anatoli Kotscherga

as Dosifey

Doris Soffel

as Marfa

Ilrich Reß

as Scrivener

Camilla Nylund

as Emma

Kent Nagano

as Conductor

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