"Boris Godunov" on birthday of Feodor Shaliapin

The Program of  XXXIII International Opera Festival named  after F.I.  Shaliapin in Kazan goes on. February 13, on the 142d anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Ivanovich,  the  opera  "Boris Godunov" by  M. Mussorgsky  takes place   on the stage of the M. Jalil  Tatar State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.  

The party  of   tzar Boris was one of the brightest in the works  by  Fyodor Shaliapin. Contemporaries  of  singer always were  fascinated by the performance of the party  by Shaliapin, newspapers wrote about the a runaway success of bass: "Beginning  from makeup and ending  by  each posture, each musical tone,  was something startlingly vivid, distinct, bright" (newspaper "Russian Gazette" 1898) .

In today's performance,  in a title role will  feature  one of the world's best performers of   Boris Godunov, a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia M. Jalil  TASTOiB    Mikhail Kazakov. Two more famous basses  participate in the opera - Alexey Tikhomirov (Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, the Helikon Opera) as Pimen,   Mikhail  Svetlov- Krutikov (Metropolitan Opera) in party of  Varlaam,   Marina Mnishek performs a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia Agunda Kulaeva, as the Impostor  - Artem Golubev (Primorsky  Theatre of Opera and Ballet). The conductor,    maestro of Moscow Novaya Opera named after E.Kolobov   Vasily  Valitov.

Press Service of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan