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Khovanshchina
Performances Sat 12 April, 5:00 pm Premiere / Mon 21 April, 5:00 pm
Price category EUR 490 / 430 / 310 / 230 / 170 / 100 / 40 / 55 (Wheelchair)
Discounts

EUR 35 for U27
Venue Großes Festspielhaus

»CHOWANSCHTSCHINA«
Musikalische Leitung: ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, Inszenierung: SIMON MCBURNEY

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WOLFGANG ABLINGER-SPERRHACKE (Ein Schreiber), Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor, Bachchor Salzburg © Inés Bacher

DANIEL OKULITCH (Schaklowityi) © Inés Bacher

MATTHEW WHITE (Fürst Wassilij Golizyn), NADEZHDA KARYAZINA (Marfa) © Inés Bacher

Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor © Inés Bacher

Performer, Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor, Bachchor Salzburg © Inés Bacher

THEO LEBOW (Kuska), VITALIJ KOWALJOW (Fürst Iwan Chowanskij), Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor, Bachchor Salzburg © Inés Bacher

DANIEL OKULITCH (Schaklowityi), VITALIJ KOWALJOW (Fürst Iwan Chowanskij), KARL FAGERLUND BREKKE (Performer) © Inés Bacher

NATALIA TANASII (Emma), NADEZHDA KARYAZINA (Marfa), THOMAS ATKINS (Fürst Andrej Chowanskij) © Inés Bacher

NADEZHDA KARYAZINA (Marfa), Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor, Bachchor Salzburg © Inés Bacher

THOMAS ATKINS (Fürst Andrej Chowanskij), Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor, Bachchor Salzburg © Inés Bacher

CHIHIRO KAWASAKI, RAKHEE SHARMA, JORGE ARBERT (Performer) © Inés Bacher

AIN ANGER (Dosifej), Slowakischer Philharmonischer Chor, Bachchor Salzburg © Inés Bacher

KHOVANSHCHINA

Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881)
National Music Drama in five acts
Text by the composer after Vladimir Vassilievich Stassov

New version, reversed and orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich, with additional editing and arrangements by Gerard McBurney and the Igor Stravinsky choral finale. Learn more.

Subscription I: 12 April, 5 pm – Premiere
»A Trio for You«: 21 April, 5 pm
Subscription II: 21 April, 5 pm

»The special thing about »Khovanshchina« is that if you changed a few names in the libretto, it would describe current events. I can't think of any other opera where that would be the case.«

Esa-Pekka Salonen
Conductor

Cast

Conductor ESA-PEKKA SALONEN
Direction & Choreography SIMON MCBURNEY
Sets REBECCA RINGST
Costumes CHRISTINA CUNNINGHAM
Light TOM VISSER
Videodesign WILL DUKE
Co-Director & Movement LEAH HAUSMAN
Dramaturgy & Advisor GERARD MCBURNEY, HANNAH WHITLEY
Sounddesign TUOMAS NORVIO

Prince Ivan Khovansky VITALIJ KOWALJOW
Prince Andrei Khovansky THOMAS ATKINS
Prince Vasily Golitsyn MATTHEW WHITE
Shaklovity DANIEL OKULITCH
Dosifei AIN ANGER
Marfa NADEZHDA KARYAZINA
Clerk WOLFGANG ABLINGER-SPERRHACKE
Emma NATALIA TANASII
Varsonofyev RUPERT GRÖSSINGER
Susanna ALLISON COOK
Kuska THEO LEBOW
Streschnew DANIEL FUSSEK

Orchestra & Chorus

FINNISH RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Slovak Philharmonic Choir
Rehearsal JAN ROZEHNAL

Bachchor Salzburg
Rehearsal MICHAEL SCHNEIDER

Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor
Rehearsal WOLFGANG GÖTZ and REGINA SGIER

NEW PRODUCTION
Co-production with the Metropolitan Opera New York


Duration: approx. 225 minutes, one intermission (30 minutes)

Video magazine »Khovanshchina« with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Simon & Gerard McBurney

Synopsis
»Khovanshchina«

A Kind of Wasteland
About the Premiere of »Khovanshchina«