Yurovsky will present in St. Petersburg the first edition of Boris Godunov

January 3 and 4, 2015 at the Mikhailovsky Theater, conductor Vladimir Yurovsky will present the musical and literary composition “Tsar Boris” under the first edition of the opera Boris Godunov (1869) of Mussorgsky and the texts of Karamzin.

“Tsar Boris” will first sound in St. Petersburg on authentic instruments performed by the British “Orchestra of the Enlightenment of the Enlightenment”, under the control of Yurovsky, according to the website of the Mikhailovsky Theater . The director of the presentation is Vitaly Fialkovsky.

Mussorgsky, who introduced the score of Boris Godunov, to the St. Petersburg Directorate of Imperial Theaters in 1869, was denied the production. The official reason for this decision of the officials of the theater committee was the lack of a winning female image - the mandatory requirement of the theatrical tradition of the 19th century.

The second, fixed editorial office of the score (including the “Polish” act with a love line of False Dmitry - Marina Mnishek, as well as the new finale - a large -scale scene of the popular uprising near Croumas) Mussorgsky completed in 1872. On February 8, 1874, the opera was first sounded on the stage of the Mariinsky Theater.

The existence of the first author’s editorial office of Boris Godunov was almost unknown to a wide listener for more than half a century. Her long way to the theater scene was associated with the comprehension of the original composer score of Boris Godunov 1869 as an independent, inhabitant work that embodied a very definite artistic and philosophical concept of Mussorgsky. The concept that is excellent not only from its own later edition and the most often executed edition of Rimsky-Korsakov, but also from all subsequent orchestral versions of the opera, created in the 20th century by Pavel Lamm, Dmitry Shostakovich, John Gutman and Karul Ratgauz.