In Andrei Serban's spectacular staging of La Khovantchina, Hartmunt Haenchen conducts a cast led by Anita Rachvelishvili's Marfa. Tickets now available on Divento.com!
An unfinished opera, originally orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov and then re-orchestrated by Dmitri Shostakovich in 1959, Khovantchina recounts a bloody episode in Russian history, that of the revolt of the Streltsy and the Old Believers against Peter the Great. For this epic fresco, Mussorgsky created music that seems to come from the depths of time, tragic, flamboyant and untamed. In Andrei Serban's spectacular staging, Hartmunt Haenchen conducts a cast led by Anita Rachvelishvili's Marfa.
Opera in five acts
Music:
Modeste Moussorgski - (1839-1881)
Libretto:
Modeste Moussorgski
Vladimir Stassov
Orchestration:
Dmitri Chostakovitch
Conductor:
Hartmut Haenchen
Director:
Andrei Șerban
Set design, Costume design:
Richard Hudson
Lighting design:
Yves Bernard
Choreography:
Laurence Fanon
Chorus master:
Ching-Lien Wu
Prince Ivan Khovanski:
Dimitry Ivashchenko
Prince Andrei Khovanski:
Sergei Skorokhodov
Prince Vassili Golitsine:
John Daszak
Chakloviti:
Evgeny Nikitin
Dosifei:
Dmitry Belosseslkiy
Marfa:
Anita Rachvelishvili
Susanna:
Carole Wilson
Le Clerc:
Gerhard Siegel
Emma:
Olga Busuoic
Varsonofiev:
wojtek Smilek
Kouzka:
Vasily Efimov
Strechniev:
Tomasz Kumiega
Premier Strelets:
Gleb Peryazev
Deuxième Strelets:
Alexander Milev
Un confident de Golitsine:
Fernando Velasquez