Khovanshchina [videorecording] : opera in five acts / by Modest Mussorgsky after Vladimir Stassov ; orchestration, Dmitri Shostakovich ; final scene, Igor Stravinsky ; an ORF/ZDF/RM Arts co-production in association with the Vienna State Opera.
Nicolai Ghiaurov (Prince Ivan Khovansky); Vladimir Atlantov (Prince Andrey Khovansky); Yuri Maruzin (Prince Vassily Golitsin); Anatoly Kocherga (the Boyar Shaklovity); Paata Burchuladze (Dosifey); Ludmila Semtschuk (Marfa); with supporting singers; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Bratislava; Wiener Sängerknaben; Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera; Austrian Federal Theatre Orchestra; Claudio Abbado, conductor. Recorded live at the Vienna State Opera.
Summary:
Opera of immense power and humanity set in the time when Peter the Great assumed power in Russia.
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