Mussorgsky, Valery Gergiev: Boris Godunov (2 DVD)The complete 1872 version, filmed at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1990. This is masterly on almost ever count musical and visual, and would now be the outright choice for this work in all the media... Front stage, as it were, are some of the best of the current generation Of Russian singers, not a dud among them... Gergiev is another of the recordings heroes. Seldom, if ever... has the score sounded so hauntingly beautiful and apt for this huge panorama of seventeenth-century Russia... Dont miss this riveting experience. Opera In Four Acts Boris Godunov - Robert Lloyd Feodor - Larissa Dyatkova Grigory Otrepiev - Alexei Steblianko Marina Mnishek - Olga Borodina Xenia - Olga Kondina Nurse - Yevgenia Perlassova Rangoni - Sergei Leiferkus Hostess - Ludmila Filatova
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