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classical music, opera, theatre
Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
The opening concert of the Budapest Spring Festival
5 April 2019, Friday
5 pm - 8:45 pm
one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Budapest Spring Festival

Mussorgsky

Khovanshchina

Khovanshchina, Mussorgsky's second, and last completed, opera is usually presented in one of two forms: either as arranged and edited by Rimsky-Korsakov, or in Shostakovich's version, available since 1958. The Hungarian Radio Art Groups present the work in János Bojti's reconstruction, in a version faithful to the composer's original intentions.
"The ad hoc needs of opera houses led to the birth of countless versions of Khovanshchina, because the dramaturges and conductors at the theatres usually treated the pieces of the repertoire with considerable liberty, especially in the case of works that do not have a firm, authorized form. This was why I considered it a task of paramount importance to create a reconstructed version of Khovanshchina,” wrote János Bojti about his work, whose premiere has been long overdue.
"The keyword of this work is reconstruction. For me, the point of the mission was to record the work without any amendments, by collecting all available sources and information, in a form as close to the composer's concept as possible.”

Concert performance.

Presented by: Budapest Spring Festival

Conductor:

János Kovács

Featuring:

the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Choir (choirmaster: Zoltán Pad) and Children's Choir (choirmaster: Soma Dinyés)
the Honvéd Male Choir (choirmaster: Kálmán Strausz)
Prince Ivan Khovansky, head of the Streltsy Evgeny Stavinsky
Andrey Khovansky, his son Misha Didyk
Prince Vasily Golitsin Mikhail Gubsky
Fyodor Shaklovity, boyar Rassul Zharmagambetov
Dosifey, head of the old believers Alexander Markeev
Marfa, young widow, old believer Elena Maximova
Emma, young German girl Anna Shapovalova
Scrivener Norbert Ernst
Susanna, old maid Éva Bátori
Kuzka, strelets Zoltán Megyesi
1st strelets Sándor Egri
Varsonofyev, a retainer of Golitsin / 2nd strelets László Szvétek
Messenger János Alagi
Streshnev, boyar Róbert Rezsnyák
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