Caryl Emerson (a literary specialist) and Robert William Oldani (a
music historian) take a comprehensive look at the most famous
Russian opera, Modest Musorgsky's Boris Godunov. The result is both
a historical study of a famous work and an interpretative piece of
scholarship. The topics discussed include: the 'Boris Tale' in
history; Karamzin's history and Pushkin's drama as literary
sources; Musorgsky's innovations as a librettist and as a theorist
of the sung Russian word; the strange story of the opera's
composition and revision; its first productions at home and abroad;
and an in-depth musical analysis. In the process, several often-met
errors in Musorgsky scholarship are clarified and corrected. A
final chapter speculates on the opera's themes of political murder,
guilt and legitimacy - so important to Russian literary and
national identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - and
the new role the 'Boris plot' and its composer might come to play
in more recent phases of Russian cultural life.
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