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...stately occasion, geared to the Slavic measures of Hamlet, Soviet Director Kozintsev's 21-hour epic in collaboration with Pasternak, Shostakovich and Shakespeare. Some viewers were enthralled, some appalled by the brooding, glacial, quasi-operatic doings at Elsinore, which at times seemed haunted by the ghost of Boris Godunov...
Born. To Jerome Hines, 41, Metropolitan Opera basso who last year became the first native American to sing Boris Godunov in Russia, won a standing ovation; and Lucia Evangelista Hines, 39, Italian-born soprano: a fourth son, fourth child; in Newark...
Along the way, NBC had successfully roamed over 800 years of Russian history, told through the relics left behind by such men as Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov and Peter the Great. Unfortunately, Producer George Vicas could not contain his own technical enthusiasms, and the historical sequences were full of nervous irritations and distracting trickery. Zoomar lenses dived into paintings to catch "significant detail." Great doors closed by themselves. Behind the double throne of the boy czars, Ivan and Peter, was a hole in the curtain through which their sister Sophia used to advise them. Sophia's picture suddenly...
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Boris Christoff; Angel) features the best of the half a dozen great Borises in a superb recording. Christoff sings three roles in his amazingly rich basso, and the Sofia National Opera chorus is matchless in the music. Three LPs, sung in Russian...
...last days in the hollow splendor of his Russian palace, haunted by the child king he has murdered, as frightened of his own evil as of the false pretender who is coming through the winter forests to kill him. At last he dies, and in dying Boris Godunov demands an all-but-impossible mystic triumph of the bassos who sing his tragic role: his final prayer must be torn from a soul already lost, from lips already dead. Yet in the last few years, no role in all grand opera has grown so rich in men who sing it superbly...