Modest Mussorgsky – BORIS GODUNOV – Coronation Scene (Boris Christoff)

Борис Годунов (BORIS GODUNOV) Musical drama in a prologue and 4 acts Composer: Modest Mussorgsky (1839–81) Libretto: Modest Mussorgsky, after Aleksandr Pushkin’s drama (1831) and Nikolay M. Karamzin’s History of the Russian State (1816–26) First performance: Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, 22 October 1873 (Revised Version of 1872). Revised version: St Petersburg Conservatory, 28 November 1896 (Rimsky-Korsakoff version). First performance of Original Version of 1869: State Academic Theatre of Opera and Bal