Re: Video of Boris Godunov--1869 version
- From: Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:46:32 -0700
SRHookEm wrote:
Help!
I am trying to locate any commercial video production of the 1869 version of "Boris Godunov". I thought I had purchased the correct version (featuring Robert Lloyd) but it is the 1872 version.
Does anyone know if the 1869 version has ever been filmed?
Here are the older possibilities to pursue:
1954 Alexander Pirogov film
Alexander Pirogov stars as Boris in this excellent Soviet film directed by Vera Stroyeva. There are massive sets, huge crowds, elaborate costumes and location scenes at the Kremlin, Moscow squares and monasteries. Georgy Nellep sings Dimitri, Maksim Mikhailov is Pimen, Aleksei Krivchenya is Varlaam, Ivan Kozlovsky is the Fool and Larissa Avdeyeva is Marina. Vasily Nebolsin conducts the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra and Chorus. N. Golovanov and Stroyeva wrote the screenplay and V. Nikolayev was cinematographer. Mosfilm. Color. In Russian with English subtitles. 105 minutes. Corinth video and laser.
1961 Giorgio Tozzi video
Giorgio Tozzi stars as Boris in this NBC Opera Theatre production by Samuel Chotzinoff. Frank Poretta is Dimitri, Gloria Lane is Marina, Richard Cross is Pimen, Andrew McKinley is Prince Shuisky, Joan Caplan is the Nurse and Lee Cass is Rangoni. Peter Herman Adler conducts the Symphony of the Air Orchestra. The English translation is by John Gutman. Kirk Browning directed for TV. Black and white. In English. 120 minutes. Lyric Video.
1962 Jerome Hines video
Jerome Hines sings the role of Boris in an extended scene from the opera on the Voice of Firestone television program on Nov. 18, 1962. The excerpt begins with the introduction to the Coronation Scene and presents the Farewell and Death of Boris. The scenes are staged with sets and extras and Howard Mitchell conducts the orchestra. The excerpt is on the video Jerome Hines in Opera and Song
.. Black and white. In Russian with English introduction. 12 minutes. VAI video.
1978 Yevgeny Nesterenko at the Bolshoi
Yevgeny Nesterenko stars as Boris Godunov in this powerful Bolshoi Opera stage production with Boris Khaikin conducting the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra and Chorus. Vladislav Piavko is Dimitri the Pretender, Artur Eisen is Varlaam, Irina Arkipova is Marina, Valery Yaroslavtsev is Pimen, Galina Kalinina is Xenia and Aleksei Maslennikov is the Fool. This is the Rimsky-Korsakov version. Color. In Russian with English subtitles. 181 minutes. Kultur video.
1980 Ruggero Raimondi in Paris
Ruggero Raimondi stars as Boris in this production at the Paris Opéra House. He is supported by contralto Zehava Gal, soprano Christine Barbaux and tenor Kenneth Riegel. Ruslan Raichev conducts the Paris Opéra Orchestra and Chorus. Color. In Russian. 180 minutes. Lyric video/Japanese laserdisc.
1987 Yevgeny Nesterenko at the Bolshoi
Yevgeny Nesterenko stars as Boris for the second time in this Bolshoi Opera production by Irina Morozova with Alexander Lazarev conducting the Bolshoi Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Vladislav Piavko is Dimitri, Tamara Sinyavskaya is Marina, Alexander Vedernikov is Pimen, Artur Eizen is Varlaam, Alexander Fedis is the Fool, Nelya Lebedeva is Xenia, Tatiana Yerastova is Fyodor, Raisa Kotova is the Nurse and Vladimir Kudryashov is Prince Shuisky. Leonid Baratov staged the original production of the Rimsky-Korsakov version. Derek Bailey directed the video. Color. In Russian with English subtitles. 171 minutes. Home Vision video.
1989 Ruggero Raimondi film
Ruggero Raimondi stars as Boris in this film by Polish director Andrzej Zulawski. Kenneth Riegel is Prince Shuisky, Galina Vishnevskaya sings Marina acted by Delphine Forest, Romuald Tesarowicz is Varlaam, Paul Pliska sings Pimen acted by Bernard Lefort, Vyaceslav Pokosov sings Dimitri acted by Pavel Slaby and Nicolai Gedda sings the Simpleton also acted by Pavel Slaby. The cinematography is by Andrzej Jaroszewic and Pierre-Laurent Chenieux and the set designs are by Nicolas Dvigoubsky. Mstislav Rostropovitch conducted the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington. Color. In Russian. 115 minutes.
1990 Andrei Tarkovsky video
Soviet film director Andrei Tarkovsky first staged this powerful production at Covent Garden in 1983. It was restaged at the Kirov Theater in St. Petersburg by Stephen Lawless with a mostly Russian cast. Robert Lloyd stars as Boris, Alexei Steblianko is Grigory, Olga Borodina is Marina, Alexander Morozov is Pimen, Vladmir Ognovenko is Varlaam, Sergei Leiferkus is Rangoni, Larissa Dyatkova is Fyodor and Yevgeny Boitsov is Shuisky. Nicholas Dvigoubsky designed the sets and costumes and Valery Gergiev conducts the Kirov Theater Orchestra and Chorus. Humphrey Burton directed the video. In Color. In Russian with English subtitles. 221 minutes. London video and laser.
1991 Vladimir Matorin film
Russian basso Vladimir Matorin stars as Boris in this Russian film of the opera shot in Moscow by Olga Ivanova. The other singers include Sasha Belyaev, T. Yas'ko, V. Kirnos, L. Kurdiumova, V. Voinarovsky and A. Kicighin. V. Kolobov conducts the orchestra. Color. In Russian. 292 minutes. Italian video/ Japanese laserdisc.
Copyright @ 1997 by Ken Wlaschin. All rights reserved.
Mike -- mrichter@xxxxxxx http://www.mrichter.com/ .
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