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La Khovantchina
Opéra Bastille
19h
Dress Cocktail attire
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.
La Khovantchina
La Khovantchina - Andrei Serban
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Music
Modeste Moussorgski
(1839-1881) -
Libretto
Modeste Moussorgski
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Libretto
Vladimir Stassov
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Orchestration
Dmitri Chostakovitch
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Conductor
Hartmut Haenchen
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Director
Andrei Șerban
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Set design, Costume design
Richard Hudson
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Lighting design
Yves Bernard
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Choreography
Laurence Fanon
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Chorus master
Ching-Lien Wu
Cast
Ivashchenko
Prince Ivan Khovanski
Skorokhodov
Prince Andrei Khovanski
Daszak
Prince Vassili Golitsine
Nikitin
Chakloviti
Rachvelishvili
Marfa
Wilson
Susanna
Siegel
Le Clerc
Smilek
Varsonofiev
Efimov
Kouzka
Kumiega
Strechniev
Milev
Deuxième Strelets
Velasquez
Un confident de Golitsine
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