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Modest Mussorgsky, Khovanshchina

I, Prelude

I, Podojdu, podojdu... pod Ivangorod

I, Ej!... Ey ty, strocilo!

I, "Aj! Prjamaja pogibel',..." - "A my zivem nyne v pochoronkach" - "Da cto ty strascaes'?"

I, "Cto b eto na Moskve takoe prikljucilos'?" - "Zil da byl pod'jacij sem'desjat godov" - "Stojte, stojte, okajannye!" - "Och ty, rodnaja matuska Rus'" - "Aj da! Veselo!"

I, "Ljudi pravoslavnye, ljudi rossijskie" - "Deti, deti moi!" - "Slava lebedju, slava belomu"

I, "Pustite, pustite!" - "Otdajsja mne!.. Ne pytaj menja!"

I, Tak, tak, knjaze!

I, "Slava lebedju" - "Cto takoe?.."

I, "Marfa, svedi-ko ljuterku domoj" - "Strel'cy!.. Zivo! V Kreml'!" - "Boze vsesil'nyj"

II, "Svet moj, bratec Vasen'ka" - "Kto tam?"

II, "Postav'!" - "Vot v cem resen'e sud'by moej"

II, "A my bez dokladu, knjaz', vot kak!" - "Ne tebe sudit' moi postupki!"

II, Pobedichom, pobedichom, posramichom

II, Knjaze, knjaze!

II, Knjaz'ja!

III, "Posramichom, prerekochom"

III, Spit streleckoe gnezdo

III, "Podnimajsja, molodcy!" - "Vali valom!"

III, "Ach, okajannye propojcy" - "Oj, da achti z"

III, Och, mne nevmogotu, och, vot

III, "Beda, beda... ach, zlejsaja!.." - "... mernyj dal'nij topot" - "Strel'cy! Sprosim batju"

III, Zdorovo, detki

IV, "Vozle recki na luzocke" - "Ty zacem?"

IV, Dances of the Persian Slave Girls

IV, "Ty zacem?" - "Plyvet, plyvet lebeduska"

IV, Gljan'-ko! Vezut, vezut kak est'!

IV, "Sversilosja resenie sud'by" - "Cto z, proznala ty, golubka"

IV, "A, ty zdes', zlodejka!" - "Vidno, ty ne cujal, knjaze" - "Ja ne verju tebe"

IV, "Gospodi, boze moj!" - "Preobrazhensky March" - "Strel'cy! Cari i gosudari Ivan i Petr"

V, "Zdes', na etom meste svjate" - "Oblekajtesja v rizy svetlye" - "Vrag celovekov"

V, "Gde ty, moja voljuska?" - "Ja ne ostavlju tebja" - "Truba predvecnogo!" - "Gospodi slavy"

V, "Gospod' spaset mja" - "I Gospod' moj, spaset mja " - Closing applause

Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina

Stein Winge (stage director), Michael Boder (music director) – With Graham Clark (The Clerk, A Scrivener), Robert Brubaker (Prince Vasili Golitzin) – Gran Teatre del Liceu

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Cast

Stein Winge — Stage director

Chloe Obolensky — Set designer

Claudie Gastine — Costumes designer

Davy Cunningham — Lighting

Inger-Johanne Rütter — Choreographer

Vladimir Ognovenko — Prince Ivan Khovanski

Vladimir Galouzine — Prince Andrei Khovanski

Program notes

A lyrical drama in a context of political, religious and cultural revolution, in the heart of the late 17th century in Russia.

The story takes place during the 1682 revolt opposing the Old Believers and the New Orthodox. Ivan Khovanski (Vladimir Ognovenko), head of the streltsy's uprising, embodies the movement of religious indignation which ends up being bloodily crushed.

This posthumous work by Mussorgky, whose score was completed by Shostakovitch a few years after the composer's death, is here staged by Stein Winge for the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

According to the specialists, Boris Godunov might be Mussorgsky's best-known work, but Khovanshchina is obviously the composer's greatest masterpiece. The choir parts carry the essence of the "Russian spirit" and the score of the opera furnished important material to the Red Army Choir.

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