Khovanshchina
National music drama in five acts
Libretto
Modest Mussorgskij
Premiere
21 February (5 March) 1886, Leningrad (Privat Theatre Kononow (version
of Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakow
Cast
PRINCE IVAN KHOVANSKY (bass)
PRINCE ANDREI KHOVANSKY (tenor)
PRINCE VASILY GOLITSYN (tenor)
SHAKLOVITY (bass-baritone)
DOSIFEI (bass)
MARFA (mezzo-soprano)
SUSANNA (soprano)
SCRIBE (tenor)
EMMA (soprano)
LUTHERAN PASTOR (baritone)
VARSONOFEV (baritone)
KUZKA (tenor)
STRESHNEV (tenor)
3 STRELTSY (bass)
CHORUS
Streltsy, old Believers, serving girls and Persian slaves, Peter the Great's body guards, the people
Place
Moscow and surroundings
Time
between 1682 and 1689