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

EUR 35 for U27

Venue Großes Festspielhaus

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 / Maurice Ravel 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 discribe 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
Production SIMON MCBURNEY
Sets REBECCA RINGST
Costumes CHRISTINA CUNNINGHAM
Light TOM VISSER
Co-Director / Choreography LEAH HAUSMAN
Videodesign WILL DUKE
Sounddesign TUOMAS NORVIO
Dramaturgy / Advisor GERARD MCBURNEY, HANNAH WHITLEY

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
Susanna ALLISON COOK
Kuska THEO LEBOW
Varsonofyev RUPERT GRÖSSINGER

Orchestra & Chorus

NEW PRODUCTION

Co-production with the Metropolitan Opera New York

Synopsis
»Khovanshchina«

A Kind of Wasteland
About the Premiere of »Khovanshchina«