Boris Godunov at The National Theatre

Dates: (11/6/2015 - 4/6/2016 )

Theatre:

The National Theatre

Národní 2
Praha 1,Praha 1 110 00

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Tickets: 150.00 K? - 1 100.00 K?

Running Time: 3 hours and 15 minutes. One intermission.

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Even though one of the most celebrated historical operas of all time bears the name of a prominent Russian Tsar, Boris Godunov is not the one and only lead character in Mussorgsky’s fresco. Similarly to A. S. Pushkin’s eponymous drama, the opera is a Shakespearean, multivalent and multilayered study of human society on the threshold of a crisis – a crisis of authority, traditions and law, a crisis of morals. Pushkin ironically referred to his play as “a comedy about the real misery of the Moscow state, about Tsar Boris and Grishka Otrepyev”. Yet it is a comedy that chills. Following the death of the last Rurik dynasty members Ivan the Terrible and his sons Fyodor and little Dimitry, the Russian throne is vacated. At the time when there is no heir apparent, legitimate is the one who does the most to make himself legitimate and knows that the ends justify the means. Who will win over the ignorant common people believing in tall stories? Who will better cope with the mean tricks of the Boyars participating in the country’s administration? Who will be able to resist the pangs of conscience in himself? Welcome to the time of Griskhas, the time of self-appointed usurpers.

Cast and Creative team for Boris Godunov at The National Theatre

Musical preparation: Petr Kofro?
Conductor: Petr Kofro?
Stage director: Linda Keprtová
Sets: Jan Št?pánek
Costumes: Eva Ji?ikovská
Chorus master: Pavel Van?k, Lukáš Vasilek, Ji?í Chvála
Dramaturgy: Ond?ej Hu?ín
Motion cooperation: Marcela Benoni

Boris Godunov

Vitaly Efanov

Fyodor

Alžb?ta Vomá?ková

Xenia

Michaela Kušteková

The Pretender

Michal Lehotský

Pimen

Lukáš Hynek-Krämer

Prince Shuysky

Valentin Prolat

Varlaam

Yevhen Shokalo

Misail

Ond?ej Koplík

Andrey Shchelkalov

Roman Janál

Xenia‘s nurse

Yvona Škvárová

The Yurodivy

Tomáš Ko?ínek

The Innkeeper

Andrea Tögel Kalivodová

Policeman

Pavel Švingr

Mityusha

Stanislav Krej?i?ík

Boyar

Petr Kosina

The Boyar-in-Attendance

Vladimír Doležal

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