Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov", orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and in the version of Leonid Baratov, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre

Modest Mussorgsky's opera "Boris Godunov", orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and in the version of Leonid Baratov, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. Alexander Pirogov as Boris, Bronislava Zlatogorova as Fyodor, Nikandr Khanayev as Shuisky, Alexander Peregudov as the boyar Khrushchov.

Photo by Semyon Mishin-Morgenstern, 1948-1949.

The production, created by the director Leonid Baratov together with the outstanding designer Fyodor Fyodorovsky and staged at the end of the 1940s, became legendary and remains a calling card of the Bolshoi, performed unchanged for as many as 75 years now.

It is called a museum on the stage, thanks to the realism of its sets, props and costumes, which correspond as closely as possible to their historical originals, both in materials and in workmanship.

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