Mussorgsky

The story

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.

Cast

A Aleksandr BorisovModest Petrovich Moussorgsky N Nikolai CherkasovVladimir Stasov V Vladimir BalashovMily Balakirev Y Yuri LeonidovAlexander Borodin A Andrei PopovNikolai Rimsky-Korsakov B Bruno FrejndlikhCesar Cui F Fyodor NikitinAlexander Dargomyzhky L Lyubov OrlovaYuliya Platonova L Lidiya ShtykanAleksandra V Valentina UshakovaNadezhda L Lidiya SukharevskayaGrand Duchess Elena Pavlovna O Oleksandra VasylievaMussorgsky's mother

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V Vasili SofronovDormidont Ivanovich K Konstantin AdashevskyRzhevsky L Lev FeninKartsev G Grigoriy Shpigelvon Metz G Georgi GeorgiuGagin R Rem LebedevIlya Repin G Georgy OrlovOsip Afanasyevich Petrov V Vladimir Taskin N Nikolay Kharitonovpeasant in a scene