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Chaliapin* as Boris - Moussorgsky* ?– Boris Godounow - Prayer Of Boris / Death Of Boris

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Companies, etc.

• Record Company – RCA Manufacturing Co., Inc.
• Recorded At – Royal Opera House

Credits

• Arranged By – Rimsky-Korsakow*
• Bass Vocals – Chaliapin*
• Composed By – Moussorgsky*
• Conductor – Vincenzo Bellezza

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Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin (Russian: ????? ????????? ????????, tr. Fyodor Ivanovich Shalyapin, IPA: [?f??d?r ??van?v??t? ???l?ap??n]; February 13 [O.S. February 1] 1873 – April 12, 1938) was a Russian opera singer. Possessing a deep and expressive bass voice, he enjoyed an important international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form.[1]

During the first phase of his career, Chaliapin endured direct competition from three other great basses: the powerful Lev Sibiriakov [ru; uk; pl; ca] (1869–1942), the more lyrical Vladimir Kastorsky [Wikidata] (1871–1948), and Dmitri Buchtoyarov (1866–1918), whose voice was intermediate between those of Sibiriakov and Kastorsky. The fact that Chaliapin is far and away the best remembered of this magnificent quartet of rival basses is a testament to the power of his personality, the acuteness of his musical interpretations, and the vividness of his performances.

Boris Godunov (Russian: ????? ???????, Borís Godunóv) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his masterpiece.[1][2] Its subjects are the Russian ruler Boris Godunov, who reigned as Tsar (1598 to 1605) during the Time of Troubles, and his nemesis, the False Dmitriy (reigned 1605 to 1606). The Russian-language libretto was written by the composer, and is based on the 1825 drama Boris Godunov by Aleksandr Pushkin, and, in the Revised Version of 1872, on Nikolay Karamzin's History of the Russian State.

Among major operas, Boris Godunov shares with Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlos (1867) the distinction of having an extremely complex creative history, as well as a great wealth of alternative material.[3] The composer created two versions—the Original Version of 1869, which was rejected for production by the Imperial Theatres, and the Revised Version of 1872, which received its first performance in 1874 in Saint Petersburg.

Boris Godunov has seldom been performed in either of the two forms left by the composer,[4] frequently being subjected to cuts, recomposition, re-orchestration, transposition of scenes, or conflation of the original and revised versions.

Several composers, chief among them Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and Dmitri Shostakovich, have created new editions of the opera to "correct" perceived technical weaknesses in the composer's original scores. Although these versions held the stage for decades, Mussorgsky's individual harmonic style and orchestration are now valued for their originality, and revisions by other hands have fallen out of fashion.

In the 1980s, Boris Godunov was closer to the status of a repertory piece than any other Russian opera, even Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin,[5] and is the most recorded Russian opera.

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