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Dimitry's Shade: A Reading of Alexander Pushkin's 'Boris Godunov'.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Reading of Alexander Pushkin's 'Boris Godunov'. By J. Douglas Clayton. (Studies...Clayton's excellent monograph on Boris Godunov highlights, however, one of the...full-length play, by Caryl Emerson (Boris Godunov: Transpositions of a Russian Theme... Read more
Mussorgsky-Stokowski: Transcriptions. Pictures at an Exhibition; Boris Godunov; Night on Bare Mountain.(Sound recording review)
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 4/1/2006; ; 385 words ; Mussorgsky-Stokowski: Transcriptions. Pictures at an Exhibition; Boris Godunov; Night on Bare Mountain. Jose Serebrier, Bournemouth...less-known pieces come off best, the Symphonic Synthesis of Boris Godunov, Tchaikovsky's Humoresque and Solitude, and, especially... Read more
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bare Mountain; Boris Godunov Symphonic Synthesis; Entr' acte to Khovanshchina.
Magazine article from: Sensible Sound; 9/1/2004; ; 417 words ; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bare Mountain; Boris Godunov Symphonic Synthesis; Entr' acte to Khovanshchina. Symphonic transcriptions by Leopold Stokowski. Oliver Knussen, the Cleveland... Read more
Opening night at the opera.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Directors & Boards; 3/22/2000; ; 700+ words ; A gala party, a brilliant Boris Godunov -- and a fateful $688 million deal. Ed. Note: To conclude our...socialize. The opening night production was Modest Moussorgsky's Boris Godunov, the tragic tale of a guilt-ridden Russian czar and his troubled... Read more
United Kingdom: London.(Opera review)
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 3/22/2009; 411 words ; ...earliest, seven-scene version of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov for its new production. Given in the David...unseen events--to show the audience why Boris cracks up. Or so it might seem to anyone...near-impossible demands on Peter Rose, singing Boris for the first time. How could he convey... Read more
Spain: Madrid.
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 11/1/2007; ; 226 words ; ...season at the Teatro Real as the police officer, Nikitich, in Boris Godunov in the 1928 Pavel Lamm revision of Mussorgsky's score. His...chorus and orchestra were excellent. In between appearances in Boris, Pomakov was Don Fernando in a concert version of Beethoven... Read more
The Life of Musorgsky.(Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 4/1/2000; 138 words ; ...Cambridge's 'Musical Lives' series and gives us a well rounded picture of the composer still most famous for his opera, Boris Godunov. Musorgsky's life is, the author writes, 'one of the more difficult to tell' because of the lack of events and travels... Read more
The Ballets Russes Revolution: Diaghilev brought fire and controversy to ballet, but what remains of his legacy?(Ballets Russes)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 2/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...presented in Paris in 1907, and been thrilled in 1908 by the great Russian bass Fyodor Chaliapin in Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov at the Paris Opera--another step in Diaghilev's mission to acquaint western Europe with Russian culture. Now he's brought... Read more
With Shakespeare's Eyes: Pushkin's Creative Appropriation of Shakespeare.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2005; ; 600 words ; ...subtexts in his work' (p. 10). For example, in the case of Boris Godunov, discussed in the first chapter, O'Neil considers the...a parody of the key Brutus scenes at the opening of Boris Godunov, 'making Machiavellian schemers out of the lofty republicans... Read more
The Face of Russia.(Review)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 3/1/1999; ; 360 words ; ...animation, and even through puppet shows--are as vital today as they were in the 19th century, as is Mussorgsky's opera, Boris Godunov. Meanwhile, Eisenstein's films document imperial Russia and the Russian Revolution using techniques that have become... Read more

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