Scala, everything is ready for the premiere of Boris Godunov. The plot and photos of the tests

The Teatro alla Scala inaugurates the 2022/2023 Opera Season with Boris Godunovthe Modest Musorgsky’s masterpiece directed by Riccardo Chailly directed by Kasper Holten and protagonist Ildar Abdrazakov

Scala, behind the scenes of the premiere of Boris Godunov. VIDEO

The composer’s libretto, inspired by the tragedy of the same name by Pushkin and to History of the Russian state from Karamzin, draws a Shakespearean drama of individual guilt against the backdrop of the “Time of Troubles” (1598-1614), the years of anarchy between the death of Ivan the Terrible and the advent of the Romanovs. The innovative version is on stage Ur-Borispresented by Musorgsky to the commission of the Imperial Theaters of St. Petersburg in 1869 but then rejected

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In 1598, after the death of Tsar Fyodor, guards and priests exhort the people to pray that the boyar Boris Godunov agrees to ascend the throne

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The coronation finally takes place in the square of the Kremlin cathedrals with an imposing ceremony, however disturbed by some riots

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In a cell of the Čudov monastery, the elderly monk Pimen is about to finish his chronicle of the events in Russia, which will report the truth about the assassination of Tsarevich Dimitri, the legitimate heir to the throne, perpetrated on the orders of Boris

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Pimen narrates the crime to the novice Grigory, who, being the same age as the Tsarevich, decides to pass himself off as him and thus lead a revolt against Boris to seize the throne

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To avoid arrest, Grigory fled to Poland by crossing the border with Lithuania

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The last scenes narrate events that happened in 1604: Boris’s children, Ksenija and Fyodor, have grown up. The tsar governs a country now exhausted by famine, in which discontent winds its way among the people and rumors about the regicide committed multiply, while the rebel forces led by Grigory are pressing at the borders

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Haunted by the ghost of the tsarevich, Boris Godunov loses his mind and, after a last exhortation to his son Fyodor, dies, thus closing a circle made of ink and blood

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The story, dark and current, echoes the vertigo of the power of Macbeth Verdi, who inaugurated the 2021/2022 season of the Teatro alla Scala