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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 29 - Mussorgsky's 'Khovanshchina'
Performance Date6 August 2017
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time18:06
Main PerformersAnte Jerkunica (Prince Ivan Khovansky),
Christopher Ventris (PrinceAndrey Khovansky, His Son),
Vsevolod Grivnov (Prince Vasily Golitsin),
Elena Maximova (Marfa, an Old Believer),
Ain Anger (Dosifey),
George Gagnidze (Shaklovity),
Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Susanna),
Norbert Ernst (Scribe),
Anush Hovhannisyan (Emma),
Colin Judson (Kuzka, a Muskateer),
Philip Tebb -(First Soldier),
Charles Gibbs (Second Soldier),
Jamie W Hall (Varsonofiev),
Christopher Bowen (Servant to Golitsyn),
Thomas Raskin -(Streshnev) - vocals
Orchestra or BandBBC Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsSchola Cantorum of The Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School,
Memorial School,
Tiffin Boys’ Choir,
BBC Singers,
Slovak Philharmonic Choir
ConductorsSemyon Bychkov
Set List'Khovanshchina’, Mussorgsky, orch. Shostakovich (concert performance; sung in Russian)
Performance NotesShot through with noble melodies, Mussorgsky’s ‘national music drama’ weaves a darkly tangled political web in which Russia herself is the casualty. Caught between reformists and continuity, the nation struggles to find peace, and the conflict leads only to death in the opera’s shattering climax.

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and an international cast, including mezzo-soprano Elena Maximova as the enigmatic Marfa.

There were two intervals.

Royal Albert Hall and Proms debut performances from Ante Jerkunica, Vsevolod Grivnov, Elena Maximova, George Gagnidze, Jennifer Rhys-Davies, Norbert Ernst and Anush Hovhannisyan.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2017/47a),
Programme (RAHE/1/2017/75, includes Libretto)
Mini Guide (RAHE/6/2017/36),
Digital Photographs,
Posters (RAHE/2/2017/27-28)
Ticket Prices£6.00-£50.00
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2017/75BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season - Prom 29 - Mussorgsky's 'Khovanshchina'6 August 2017
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work10965BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2017 - One Hundred and Twenty-Third Season75
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/983Bychkov; Semyon (30 November 1952); Soviet conductor
DS/UK/893British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO); 1930-; British radio orchestra
DS/UK/958British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Singers; 1924-; British chamber choir
DS/UK/5483Tiffin Boys' Choir; 1957-; English school choir
DS/UK/21584Slovak Philharmonic Choir; 1946-; Slovak choir
DS/UK/6621Anger; Ain (17 June 1971); Estonian bass singer
DS/UK/23996Gagnidze; George (fl.1996-); Georgian baritone
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