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Khovanshchina
Moscow State Player Music Theatre
Mussorgsky
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Prince Ivan Khovansky | |
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Prince Andrey Khovansky | |
Prince Vasiliy Golitsin | |
Dosifey | |
Marfa | |
Boyar Fyodor Shaklovity | |
Scrivener | |
Emma | |
Susanna | |
Kuzka | |
Varsonofiev | |
Streshnev | |
Golitsin's myrmidon | |
Streltsy | Kirill Kapachinskich & Aphorism Osokin |
A Voice | |
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Modest Mussorgsky’s opera, Khovanshchina, is set in a dark and politically unstable period of Russian history. The five-act “national music drama,” composed in Saint Petersburg between 1872 and 1880, tells the story of the 1682 rebellion, led by Prince Ivan Khovansky and the Old Believers, against Peter the Great. Additionally, the plot involves the disloyalty of the corrupt Prince Vasily Golitsyn. At its center, the conflict is between the continuation of a traditionally isolated Russia and the outward-looking Western reforms which Peter the Great hoped to implement. Ultimately, Peter puts down the rebellion. Khovansky is murdered, Golitsyn is put into exile, and the Old Believers commit mass suicide by immolation.
The haunting aria, Sily patainyye (“Mysterious Powers”), comes from the opera’s second act. Prince Golitsyn hires Marfa to tell his fortune in secret. After summoning “occult forces, powerful forces, souls that have departed for a mysterious world,” she reveals that the Prince will face exile and live in poverty and profound grief and suffering. “In that far land, in bitter tears, you will learn the ultimate truth of the earth.”
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MUSSORGSKY: Prelude to Khovanshchina
06 Oct 2022
by Jeff Counts
THE COMPOSER – MODEST MUSSORGSKY (1839–1881) – If melancholy were a job, Mussorgsky would have enjoyed a very successful career. Haunted by the loss of his dear friend, Victor Hartmann (the inspiration for Pictures at an Exhibition), and left alone after his roommate Arseny Golenishchev-Kutozov moved out of their tiny shared flat to get married, Mussorgsky in 1874 was drinking a lot and wallowing in the misery of his own mortality. The departure of his friend Golenishchev-Kutozov was particularly tough on the composer, as the two companions (who were distant relatives) had shared a bond over the gloomy poetry Arseny wrote. In fact, the pair of song cycles Mussorgsky composed with Arseny’s words have titles that capture his mood at the time perfectly—Sunless and Songs and Dances of Death.
THE HISTORY – 1874 was not without some good news for Mussorgsky. Boris Godunov premiered with great public success that year, which for another artist might have signaled a professional pinnacle. But Mussorgsky was highly sensitive to the critical reactions to Boris, which ran counter to those of the audience and included some particularly harsh words from hi