On May 12 and 14 Modest Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov was successfully presented at Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre. This production has become the tenth in its repertoire. According to Galina Vishnevskaya, the Artistic Director, words, she wanted the students ‘to feel themselves as a part of a great nation with great culture, which had been shown by Mussorgsky in Boris Godunov like nowhere else ‘.
Extremely experienced Lithuanian opera conductor – Gintaras Rinkevicius acted as the production conductor. ‘Rossiyskaya Gazeta’ confessed that ‘he, together with the orchestra has managed to create a serious and stirring drama background’.
Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre on Ostozhenka str. has shown a unique Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov production, for all that there are no non-canonnical shifts on the stage in acting time or place. Ivan Popovski, Pyotr Fimenko’s Macedonian apprentice, made a purely human drama, which makes one empathize, out of an epic creation by a member of the Mighty Handful. A famous artist Valery Levantal has created a true decor masterpiece, using a unique technology of producing fabric scenery sets, which is a continuation of the Russian opera theatre historical traditions. Most of the young soloists naturally still have a scholastic manner of singing. However, there are several serious works, both – in vocal and acting. First of all, – the two antipodes: Yurodiviy and Boris – Stanislav Mostovoy (tenor) and Alexey Tikhomirov (bass). On the whole, with this tenth production of the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre its students have passed the ‘theatre exam’ with the ‘excellent’ mark.
M. Babalova ‘Izvestiya’