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	Khovanshchina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина, Hovánščina, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky to a Russian libretto by Vladimir Stasov, based on the events of the Moscow Uprising of 1682.
		Written between 1872 and 1880, the work was unfinished and unperformed when the composer died in 1881.
		While Khovanshchina is not seen on stage often, especially in the West, it has been recorded several times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Khovanshchina (605 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		That last one proved memorable only for its first two performances, both of which were graced by the singing of three borrowed soloists from the Mariinsky and by the conducting of Mstislav Rostropovich, who immediately afterward departed the theater, leaving behind him a scorching denunciation of the Bolshoi's management and its working conditions.
		Set in Moscow during the year 1682, "Khovanshchina," over its nearly five-hour length, tells a complicated tale of the political and religious struggles that followed the death of the second Romanov tsar, Alexei Mikhailovich, and ends, with special drama, in a scene of self-immolation by a group of the religious schismatics known as Old Believers.
		Alexandrov concentrates on the individuals involved, on "their souls," as he puts it, and on the opera's ideas, rather than on a precise depiction of historical events, as is commonly the case in "Khovanshchina" stagings.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2002/06/07/101.html (948 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Music of Russia
		The Mighty Handful and the Russian Music Society were rivals, with the former embracing a Russian national identity and the latter musically conservative.
		Among the Mighty Handful's most notable compositions were the operas The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka), Sadko, Boris Godunov, Prince Igor and Khovanshchina, and the symphonic suite Scheherazade.
		Khovanshchina or The Khovansky Affair (Хованщина in Russian) is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Music-of-Russia (5568 words)

	Idiocentrism
		Musorgsky's most gorgeous music is to be found in the choruses of his operas Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina, but in the context of the operas as a whole, the choruses always have an ironic twist.
		In Khovanshchina the pious Old Believer Dosifei goes on bended knee to beg the support to the brutish conspirator Ivan Khovansky (as well as Khovansky's worthless failed-rapist son Andrei, whose father wants to make him czar).
		I have used the libretto of the Rostropovich version of Boris Godunov, and the Khovanshchina libretto found in Jennifer Batchelor and Nicholas John's Khovanshchina (Calder / English National Opera, 1994).
	www.idiocentrism.com /musorgskychorus.htm (1441 words)

	Telarc International:
		The beautiful introduction to the opera Khovanshchina, subtitled "Dawn on the Moscow River," with its shimmering tonal colors, makes a marvelous addition to the other two works.
		Moussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition was inspired by the death and subsequent memorial showing of the works of Victor Hartmann, a Russian artist and architect who had been a close friend of the composer.
		The opera Khovanshchina was written during the last decade of Moussorgsky's life, and was left unfinished at his death in 1881.
	www.telarc.com /gscripts/title.asp?gsku=0296 (360 words)

	Utah Symphony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The story, fashioned by the composer and his friend Vladimir Stassov, concerned a particularly turbulent period in Russian history, 1682-1689, one that saw the clash between the old regime and the radical new one of Peter the Great, the conflict between Eastern and Western ideas, orthodoxy and iconoclasm.
		The dawn of a new age is portrayed symbolically in the Prelude to Khovanshchina (the Khovanskys, who supported the old regime of Prince Khovansky), a musical landscape of sunrise over Red Square in Moscow.
		The importance Shostakovich gave to his orchestration of Khovanshchina can be seen in the assignation of an opus number (106) to his score.
	www.utahsymphony.org /concert_search_detail.cfm?id=253 (1420 words)

	Christopher A. Gabler - Rice University EEB - Personal
		Following a fire at the New Orleans animal shelter where she was staying, Khovanshchina was brought unharmed to the animal hospital where I was working at the time.
		Khovanshchina (Koh'-vahn-shee-nah) was named after the heroine of the Mussorgsky opera of the same name due to her remarkable intellect, cunning, gentleness, and courage.
		Khovanshchina always has her eye on the gorgeous Sunshine and has been known to put her moves on the most attractive stuffed animals.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~cag5762/carnivora.html (1278 words)

	classical music - andante - the kirov's khovanshchina
		Unlike the better-known Boris Godunov, Khovanshchina has no central tragic figure: the plot is motivated by Tsar Peter the Great, though he's only briefly seen and never heard.
		The Vienna State Opera's 1989 Khovanshchina (still available on DVD) effectively clarified the drama's sprawling components, but was burdened by stentorian singing more appropriate to Wagner.
		Seen in close proximity to the Metropolitan Opera's production of Prokofiev's War and Peace (which meant tracing Gergiev's path as he commuted between New York and Washington) Khovanshchina revealed what clarity of vision was latent in Mussorgsky's unfinished sketches — a vision that Prokofiev utterly lacked in dramatizing his flawed libretto.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=16218 (948 words)

	OPERA: 'KHOVANSHCHINA' AT MET AFTER 35 YEARS - New York Times
		MUSSORGSKY'S ''Khovanshchina'' lacks some of the sonic splendor of his ''Boris Godunov,'' but it is a powerful work that ought to be better known in this country.
		It would be naive to think that most of the audience understood enough Russian to grasp the rudiments of the struggle among the plotters against the Czar (who would become known as Peter the Great after rubbing out his enemies).
		The Cast KHOVANSHCHINA, opera in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky; libretto by the composer and V. Stassov; orchestration by Dmitri Shostakovich.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9B06E2DF1E39F936A25753C1A963948260 (572 words)

	Opera: 'Khovanshchina' - New York Times
		James Conlon was a fresh, sturdy presence in the pit, conducting the score (in Shostakovich's orchestration) with an ear tuned both to its stark, rather bleak sonorities and its lyric drama.
		The scene in which the Streltsy militia carouses out of control serves chiefly to remind one that it is hard for one actor to depict one drunk on stage, but making dozens of them credible goes beyond the acting craft of any opera chorus.
		Finally, an old refrain: if there is any opera in the Metropolitan repertory that cries out for supertitles, it is this ''Khovanshchina,'' which deserves a larger and more appreciative audience than it is likely to attract, unless Russian becomes our second language.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE7DB113CF937A15751C0A96E948260 (718 words)

	Kirov Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mussorgsky was born on March 21, 1839, in Karevo, Pskov district, Russia, and died on March 28, 1881, in St. Petersburg.
		He worked on the opera Khovanshchina between 1872 and 1880, and the score was completed and orchestrated by Rimsky-Korsakov two years after Mussorgskyâs death; the first performance was presented by the Musical Dramatic Circle in St. Petersburg on February 21, 1886.
		The Prelude to Khovanshchina received its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall on February 25, 1905, with the Russian Symphony Society of New York conducted by Modest Altschuler.
	www.carnegiehall.org /article/box_office/events/evt_4378_pf.html (3354 words)

	Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Performer Details
		Future engagements include Prince Khovansky in Khovanshchina at La Scala and at the Liceu in Barcelona, as well as the role of the Commendatore in Don Giovanni at Seattle Opera.
		A graduate of the Ural Conservatory, Ognovenko joined Maly Theatre of Saint Petersburg in 1984, and in 1989 became a principal bass with the Mariinsky Theatre (the Kirov Opera).
		In 1996 the bass portrayed Prince Ivan Khovansky in a new staging of Khovanshchina under the baton of Mstislav Rostropovich at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre and subsequently became the leading bass of the Bolshoi Theatre.
	www.laphil.org /resources/performer_detail.cfm?id=2298 (550 words)

	KHOVANSHCHINA (in MARION) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Khovanshchina prelude [sound recording] ; Songs and dances of death.
		Khovanshchina [sound recording] : a musical drama of the national history in five acts.
		Khovanshchina [videorecording] : a musical drama in five acts.
	www-catalog.cpl.org /MARION?T=KHOVANSHCHINA (60 words)

	Performance: The Kirov Opera Feb 19 - 24, 2002
		Khovanshchina (Koh-von-che-nah), an opera in three acts composed by Modest Mussorgsky, is set in the Russia of 1682.
		The noble Khovansky family is accused of plotting with the Old Believers (who are led by a man named Dosifei) to overthrow Czar Peter.
		Listen to excerpt one of "Dance of the Persian Slaves" from Khovanshchina (Recording NOT performed by the Kirov Opera)
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=MCZKI (737 words)

	WNO
		Possibly Modest Mussorgksy's greatest opera, Khovanshchina was unfinished at the time of his death, so this production employs Shostakovich's scoring with the addition of a final chorus composed by Stravinsky in 1913.
		It is a work of immense power and humanity, set at the time when Peter the Great assumed power in Russia, a turning point in Russia's history when old forces came into conflict with new.
		Khovanshchina is supported by the Helena Oldacre Trust
	www.wno.org.uk /what.opera.128.html (180 words)

	Kirov Opera - Khovanshchina
		If the first performance of Khovanshchina is any indication, the Kirov Opera's three weeks at the Metropolitan Opera House promises to offer New York a stunning glimpse of Russia's operatic legacy.
		Mussorgsky's three-and-a half hour epic, pitting power struggles in the era of Peter the Great against a personal story of love, betrayal, and sacrifice, shows the composer at his most passionate.
		This performance proved that Khovanshchina should join the composer's better-known Boris Godunov as a staple in the Western operatic repertoire.
	www.robertaonthearts.com /id46.html (541 words)

	Khovanshchina, Kirov Opera - theatre tickets - Royal Opera House - London, United Kingdom - Keith Prowse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		The Kirov Opera's incomparable production of Khovanshchina is a feast of sumptuous sets, magnificent costumes and spectacular tableaux with a glittering cast headed by the great Olga Borodina.
		Mussorgsky's opera is an unparalleled artistic vision of the power struggles taking place in Russia as the 17th century draws to a close and Peter the Great ascends the throne.
	www.keithprowse.com /cgi-bin/web_info.exe/kpssus?crypto_block=E_--FS5TDUhEtXfgi04MA30Bk5jDqBGWqqcaAddT6Ih3nApc8SQQmmjK3PP9f_GMybsHANdQ8T1LowqsObOWSqdJjsnfK3mSwiRd4EJqU4G9WU9-Y (194 words)

	Khovanshchina (The Khovansky Rising)
		A pardon comes for the Strel'tsï; At night by a hermitage in the forest Dosifey laments the result of his own attempt to secure the restoration of the Old Believers, while Marfa and Andrey join in building a pyre for their own immolation.
		The historical background of Khovanshchina lies in the problems following the death of the young Tsar Fyodor.
		Power had been shared by the late Tsar's inadequate brother Ivan and his half-brother Peter, later Peter the Great, with their sister Sophia as regent.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Khovanshchina(The_Khovansky_Rising).htm (386 words)

	DVD Movie Store Featuring Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina / Abbado, Ghiaurov, Atlantov, Vienna State Opera Movie on Dvd (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Mussorgsky's score, borrowing idioms from Russian religious music and folksong, creates a convincing atmosphere and generates tremendous tension in one violent confrontation after another, leading up to one of the most spectacular final scenes in opera.
		Khovanshchina is not the kind of opera usually associated with the Vienna State Opera, but this production uses Russian and Eastern European singers with Western imaginative freedom and technical expertise--a combination that surpasses the competing versions by Russian companies.
		Khovanshchina considered by many to be Mussorgsky's greatest work is grand opera in the greatest sense.
	www.evaluebuy.com /shops/asinsearch_B000059H8A.html (632 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina (The Khovansky Affair) (1989)
		The Vienna State Opera brings to the stage one of the less-well-known operatic works by one of the great composers, Modest Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina.
		Left unfinished at the composer's death, the opera was taken up in turn by Igor Stravinsky, who composed the final chorus, and Dmitri Shostakovitch, who completed the orchestration.
		The transfer is better than average as well, but the lack of extras makes a trip to the reference library essential to getting the most out of it.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=1080 (1249 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts \| \| Khovanshchina
		Exemplary: Jill Grove and Tom Randle in Khovanshchina at the ENO.
		Given the recent intensification of the English National Opera crisis, the company's revival of Khovanshchina gains intense resonance.
		Mussorgsky's tremendous chronicle, set in the Russia of Peter the Great, deals with the wastage of lives attendant on the establishment of autocracy.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /reviews/story/0,11712,881616,00.html (305 words)

	village voice > theater > Mythos, Khovanshchina, and Winterreise by Michael Feingold
		Unlike Semyon Kotko and Kitezh, the production of Khovanshchina that the Kirov brought to Lincoln Center was perfectly traditional in look: realistic courtyards and palaces, historically accurate costumes.
		What killed it was the leaden staging: Leonid Baratov's 1960 production, as restored by Yuri Alexandrov, followed the overall shape of the scenes, but never seemed to find movements that matched the music or pointed the action in any but the most generalized ways.
		To function it simply has to be in balance, just as a human being must be in balance to stand upright.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0332,feingold,46031,11.html (1607 words)

	Amazon.com: Bolshoi-Gala: Music: Peter Feranec,Pavel Chernyky,Vladimir Redkin,Artur Eisen,Artur Eyzen,Vladimir ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Khovanshchina: Ov 'Dawn At The Moscow River' - Orch Of The Bolshoi Theatre/Peter Feranec
		Khovanshchina: Prayer - Orch Of The Bolshoi Theatre/Peter Feranec
		Khovanshchina, opera in 5 acts, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov Overture: Dawn at the Moscow River
	www.amazon.com /Bolshoi-Gala-Peter-Feranec/dp/B000001HE6 (779 words)

	Amazon.com: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain; Khovanshchina [Hybrid SACD]: Music: Leonard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Khovanshchina, opera in 5 acts, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov Introduction
		Khovanshchina, opera in 5 acts, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov Entr'Acte
		Khovanshchina, opera in 5 acts, edited by Rimsky-Korsakov Dance of the Persian Slaves
	www.amazon.com /Mussorgsky-Pictures-Exhibition-Mountain-Khovanshchina/dp/B00018D59E (734 words)

	Khovanshchina: Kirov Opera @ Royal Opera House, London : opera review
		Khovanshchina: Kirov Opera @ Royal Opera House, London : opera review
		Though musical values were undoubtedly higher for Khovanshchina, the second offering of the Kirov Opera's short ROH season, the staging was a lot less atmospheric than in Monday's Boris Godunov.
		Whereas the problem with the Boris production was an overdose of confused and confusing symbolism, some of it unclear, this version of Mussorgsky's last (and unfinished) opera seemed stuck in nineteenth-century scenic values.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/khovanshchina_kirov_0805.htm (688 words)

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