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Khovanshchina (Theatre)
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Khovanshchina (Russian: Хованщина) is a five-act opera by Modest Mussorgsky, set to a libretto by Mussorgsky himself. Based on real events in Russian history, the opera was unfinished and unperformed when Mussorgsky died in 1881.This opera deals with a particular episode of Russian history: the rebellion of Prince Ivan Khovansky, the Old Believers (a sect of Eastern Orthodox Christians), and the Muscovite Streltsy against the regent Sofia Alekseyevna and the two joint Tsars Peter the Great and Ivan V, who were in the process of Westernizing Russia. The major players of this opera are the Streltsy (firearm infantry from 16th to 18th century) leader Prince Ivan Khovansky, his son Prince Andrey Khovansky, the schismatic Marfa, the chief Old Believer Dosifey, Prince Vasily Golitsin, and Boyar Fyodor Shaklovity.Ivan Khovansky had played a role in the Moscow Uprising of 1682, which had resulted in Sofia becoming regent, before he turned against her in the fall of 1682. But with the help of Fyodor Shaklovity, Sofia is able to successfully suppress the titular Khovanshchina (Khovansky affair), and thus, the Old Believers commit mass suicide, at least in the opera.Yeah, 17th-century Russia was quite rough back then.Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov had completed, revised, and scored Khovanshchina in 1881-1882, with its premiere happening in 1886 in Saint Petersburg. But in 1913, Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel had been commissioned by critic Sergei Diaghilev to make their own arrangement. And in 1959, Dmitri Shostakovich revised the opera based on Mussorgsky's vocal score. Today, Shostakovich's arrangement is the one that is performed, with Stravinsky's finale sometimes being used as well.Today, this opera is rarely performed outside of Russia, though it has seen some performances in other European countries.This work provides examples of: | |
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