Fonti letterarie: Borís Godunóv (1825) di Aleksàndr Sergeevič Puškin (1799-1837), Storia dello Stato Russo di Nikolai Michajlovič Karamzin (1766-1826)
Epoca di composizione: ottobre 1868 – 15 dicembre 1869 (prima versione orig.); 1871 – 23 giugno 1872 (seconda versione orig.)
Prima rappresentazione: Leningrado, 16 febbraio 1929 (prima versione); San Pietroburgo, Teatro Marinskij, 8 febraio 1874 (seconda versione)
Prima rappresentazione italiana: Verona, Festival Lirico Areniano, 1930 (versione di Rimski-Korsakov in italiano); Firenze, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 25 maggio 1940 (seconda versione orig.)
lista di esecuzione:
formato MP3
- PROLOGO
- Are You turned to marble statues?
- Russian peopel all, us boyar is still unbending!
- Chorus of pilgrims
- Long live the Tsar Boris Fiodorovich!
- My soul is sad! A sense of dark foreboding
- ATTO PRIMO
- One page to write before my tale is ended
- Once more the dream!
- Once I dad a duck, striped with black and blue
- Listen good people, freely give your off rings
- By the forts of Kazan
- Hey! Hast thou never learnt how to sing?
- ATTO SECONDO
- Hear me beloved, tell me where thou bidest!
- Midge to woodland once did go
- Listen to a tale that is true!
- How now? Am I wolf to frighten all your chicks?
- I have attained the highest power
- Great and mighty Tsar, the Prince Shuisky is desirous
- O, give me air! I stifle as a I breathe
- ATTO TERZO
- Evening, near the fontain... O marvelous voice!
- Polonaise with chorus
- Dimitri, Tsarievich!... Dimitri!
- ATTO QUARTO
- What, mass is over?
- The moon sails on, the little cat cries
- Ah Boris! They have hurt the innocent
- Come the matter is both grave and urgent
- When did I hear of murder?
- A humble monk, who knowing naught of vain and wordly
- Farewell my son, I'm dying
- Now bring him here
- Domine, domine, salvum fac regem
- We, Dimitri Ivanovich, by the will of God above
formato FLAC
- PROLOGO
- Are You turned to marble statues?
- Russian peopel all, us boyar is still unbending!
- Chorus of pilgrims
- Long live the Tsar Boris Fiodorovich!
- My soul is sad! A sense of dark foreboding
- ATTO PRIMO
- One page to write before my tale is ended
- Once more the dream!
- Once I dad a duck, striped with black and blue
- Listen good people, freely give your off rings
- By the forts of Kazan
- Hey! Hast thou never learnt how to sing?
- ATTO SECONDO
- Hear me beloved, tell me where thou bidest!
- Midge to woodland once did go
- Listen to a tale that is true!
- How now? Am I wolf to frighten all your chicks?
- I have attained the highest power
- Great and mighty Tsar, the Prince Shuisky is desirous
- O, give me air! I stifle as a I breathe
- ATTO TERZO
- Evening, near the fontain... O marvelous voice!
- Polonaise with chorus
- Dimitri, Tsarievich!... Dimitri!
- ATTO QUARTO
- What, mass is over?
- The moon sails on, the little cat cries
- Ah Boris! They have hurt the innocent
- Come the matter is both grave and urgent
- When did I hear of murder?
- A humble monk, who knowing naught of vain and wordly
- Farewell my son, I'm dying
- Now bring him here
- Domine, domine, salvum fac regem
- We, Dimitri Ivanovich, by the will of God above
