(Credit: Inés Bacher) The Metropolitan Opera is set to present a new production of Mussorgsky’s “Khovanschina” in a future season. The New York Times is reporting that the production by Simon McBurney premiering at the Salzburg Easter Festival “will travel to New York in the future.” The new production will showcase a new ending by composer, musicologist, and author Gerard {…}
(Photo Credits: Maarit Kytöharju) Opening Berwaldhallen’s 2024 Baltic Sea Festival, on August 24th, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Gerard McBurney produced a tastefully contemporary and neo-Wagnerian rendition of Modest Mussorgsky’s unfinished “national music drama,” “Khovanshchina,” to a ravenous public. Awarded, and rightly so, with three ovations, ten soloists from across Europe and three choirs successfully produced one of the most expressive versions {…}
The Vienna State Opera kicks off its live streaming service with a performance of Mussorgsky’s “Khovanschina” on Monday, Sept. 11, 2017. The performance kicks off at 6:30 p.m. local time and stars Ferruccio Furlanetto, Christopher Ventris, Herbert Lippert, Andrzej Dobber, Ain Anger, and Elena Maximova. Michael Güttler conducts. This is only the second performance of the season, with subsequent showcases {…}