La Khovantchina

La Khovantchina - Andrei Serban

• Music

  Modeste Moussorgski
  (1839-1881)

• Libretto

  Modeste Moussorgski

• Libretto

  Vladimir Stassov

• Orchestration

  Dmitri Chostakovitch

• Conductor

  Hartmut Haenchen

• Director

  Andrei Șerban

• Set design, Costume design

  Richard Hudson

• Lighting design

  Yves Bernard

• Choreography

  Laurence Fanon

• Chorus master

  Ching-Lien Wu

In the wake of Boris Godunov, Mussorgsky continued to explore and examine Russian history. He drew inspiration for this opera from the Moscow uprising of 1682, the year in which Peter the Great was crowned tsar. Whilst hoping to reform Russia, he runs into resistance from the nobility and the Church – the former led by Prince Ivan Khovansky, and the latter represented by the Old Believers and their leader Dosifey. Mussorgsky graced this dark page of history with the most fascinating score imaginable whose hauntingly sombre tones seem to rise out of the depths of time. With its extravagant costumes and monumental sets Andrei Serban’s production plunges us into the feudal Russia of the 17th century.

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Choeur d’enfants de l’Opéra national de Paris

Coproduction avec le Teatro del Maggio musiacle Fiorentino

La Khovantchina

La Khovantchina - Andrei Serban

• Prince Ivan Khovanski

  Dimitry Ivashchenko

• Prince Andrei Khovanski

  Sergei Skorokhodov

• Prince Vassili Golitsine

  John Daszak

• Chakloviti

  Evgeny Nikitin

• Dosifei

  Dmitry Belosseslkiy

• Marfa

  Anita Rachvelishvili

• Susanna

  Carole Wilson

• Le Clerc

  Gerhard Siegel

• Emma

  Anush Hovhannisyan

• Varsonofiev

  wojtek Smilek

• Kouzka

  Vasily Efimov

• Strechniev

  Tomasz Kumiega

• Premier Strelets

  Volodymyr Tyshkov

• Deuxième Strelets

  Alexander Milev

• Un confident de Golitsine

  Fernando Velasquez