West Long Branch, NJ : Kultur International Films, [2005]
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Notes:
- DVD soundtrack in Dolby stereo aspect ratio 4:3.
- Sung in Russian, with English subtitles.
- Opera in 5 acts, completed and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov libretto by the composer and Vladimir Stasov.
- Filmed in 1979.
- Yevgeni Nesterenko (Dosifei) Irina Arkhipova (Marfa) Alexander Vedernikov (Ivan Khovansky) Evgeny Raikov (Prince Galitsyn) Vladislav Romanovsky (Shaklovity)
- Like Mussorgsky’s earlier Boris Godunov, Khovanshchina deals with an episode in Russian history, first brought to the composer’s attention by his friend Vladimir Stasov. It concerns the rebellion of Prince Ivan Khovansky, the Old Believers, and the Streltsy against Peter the Great, who was attempting to institute Westernizing reforms to Russia. Peter succeeded, the rebellion was crushed and Khovansky’s followers committed mass suicide.
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Requested by Klemp, M