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Title Boris Godunov / music and libretto by Modest Mussorgsky, after Pushkin ; the Royal Opera House production by Andrei Tarkovsky ; presented in association with the Kirov Opera and Barclays Bank ; a Virgin Broadcasting/BBC TV/Royal Opera House co-production in association with the Decca Record Company Limited and St. Petersburg Television ; Director, Stephen Lawless ; director for television, Humphrey Burton.

Publication Info. [London] : Philips ; New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Universal Music Group, [2002, 1990]
©2002

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  DVD 782.1 BOR    Check Shelf
Description 2 videodiscs (221 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (22 pages)
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4 3/4 in.
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DVD video
System Details DVD ; NTSC, all regions ; dts 5.1 surround sound or Linear PCM stereo.
Performer Robert Lloyd, Olga Borodina, Alexei Steblianko, Sergei Leiferkus ; supporting singers ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Kirov Opera ; conductor, Valery Gergiev.
Credits Sets and costumes designed by Nicholas Dvigoubsky ; choreographer, Romayne Grigorova.
Summary Set at the start of the 17th century, the story concerns the reign of Tsar Boris Godunov, who has murdered the Tsarevich Dmitri in order to obtain the succession, and the challenge made to him by the Pretender Dmitri. The opera is based on Pushkin's historical tragedy of the same name and Karamzin's History of the Russian state.
Contents Disc 1: Prologue -- Act 1 -- Act 2 ; Disc 2: Act 3 -- Act 4.
Note In-container guide includes program notes by Irina Brown and John Warrack, and synopsis in English, French and German (47 pages).
Performed in the ed. by David Lloyd-Jones, published by Oxford University Press.
Event "The complete 1872 version, filmed at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1990"--Container
Note Opera in 4 acts with a prologue.
Language Sung in Russian; optional subtitles in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Chinese.
Subject Boris Fyodorovich Godunov, Czar of Russia, 1551 or 1552-1605 -- Drama.
Boris Fyodorovich Godunov, Czar of Russia, 1551 or 1552-1605. (OCoLC)fst01808943
Performance.
Genre/Form Televised performances. (OCoLC)fst01726266
Operas. (OCoLC)fst01726688
Drama. (OCoLC)fst01423879
Television adaptations. (OCoLC)fst01710478
Operas.
Televised performances.
Television adaptations.
Added Author Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881, composer.
Tarkovskiĭ, Andreĭ Arsenʹevich, 1932-1986, stage director.
Lawless, Stephen, director.
Burton, Humphrey, 1931- director.
Lloyd-Jones, David.
Lloyd, Robert, 1940- singer.
Borodina, Olʹga, singer.
Stebli︠a︡nko, Alekseĭ, singer.
Leĭferkus, Sergeĭ, 1946- singer.
Gergiev, Valeriĭ, 1953- conductor.
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881. Boris Godunov (1872)
Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837. Boris Godunov.
Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1766-1826. Istorii︠a︡ gosudarstva rossiĭskogo.
Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova, performer.
Royal Opera House (London, England)
Mariinskiĭ teatr (1991- )
Virgin Broadcasting.
British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service.
Decca Record Company.
Philips (Sound recording label)
Universal Music Group.
Barclays Bank.
Standard No. 044007508992
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Music No. 075 089-9 Philips
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