Khovanshchina : opera in five acts / [music] by Modest Mussorgsky ; after Vladimir Stassov ; orchestration, Dmitri Shostakovich ; final scene, Igor Stravinsky ; producer, Alfred Kirchner ; directed for television by Brian Large ; an ORF/ZDF/Monarda Arts co-production ; in association with the Vienna State Opera.

Arguably Modest Mussorgsky's greatest work, Khovanshchina was incomplete at the time of his death and so this glorious production, from the Vienna State Opera, employs Shostakovich's scoring with the addition of the final chorus composed by Stravinsky in 1913. It is a work of immense power...

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Online Access: Streaming Video (via Alexander Street Press)
Corporate Authors: Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor (Singer), Wiener Staatsoper. Orchester (Instrumentalist)
Other Authors: Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich, 1839-1881 (Composer), Shostakovich, DmitriÄ­ Dmitrievich, 1906-1975 (Composer), Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 (Composer), Kirchner, Alfred (Producer), Abbado, Claudio (Conductor)
Other title:Khovanshchina.
Khovanshchina.
Format: Video
Language:Russian
Published: Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany : Monarda Arts, 1989.
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