Research Catalog

Title

Boris Godounow : opéra en 3 actes et 7 tableaux / de Modeste Moussorgsky.

Author

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881

Publication

Paris : Représentations de gala, 1908

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Bilibin, Ivan I︠A︡kovlevich, 1876-1942
• John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) the
• Opéra de Paris.

Description

66 p. : ill., music; 27 cm.

Subject

• Boris Fyodorovich Godunov, Czar of Russia, 1551 or 1552-1605 > Drama
• Singers > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

Programs – France – Paris – 1908.

Note

• Souvenir illustrated programme for performances of May 19, 21, 24, 26, 31 and June 2, 4, 1908 at the Opéra de Paris.
• First performed in St. Petersburg 27 January 1874, at the Mariinsky Theatre; this version first performed 19 May 1908, at the Opéra de Paris.
• Illustrated paper wrappers signed I. Bilibine [i.e. Bilibin] 1908.
• Cast list from first performance: p. 15-16.
• Selected illustrations (black and white reproductions of original artwork and photographs) described in contents note.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Modeste Pétrovitch Moussorgsky / A. Ossowsky et M.-D. Calvocoressi -- Le plus récent portrait du Maître Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakow [ill.] / V. Sérow -- Alexandre Golovine [ill.] / L. Bakst -- Alexandre Benois [ill.] / C. Somow -- M. Félix Blumenfeld [ill.] ; M. A. Sanine [ill.] / K. Juon -- Moussorgsky et Boris Godounow / Pierre Lalo -- Le réalisme dans Boris Godounow / Robert Brussel -- Boris Godounow / M.-D. Calvocoressi -- Boris Godounow / M.-D. Calvocoressi -- Les premiers interprètes de "Boris Godounow," St-Pétersbourg 1874 [ill.] -- [facsimile reproduction of pages from autograph ms. score].

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library