THE DALLAS OPERA PRESENTS BORIS GODUNOV BY MUSSORGSKY

THE DALLAS OPERA PROUDLY PRESENTS

RUSSIAN BASS MIKHAIL KAZAKOV AS

BORIS GODUNOV

IN MODEST MUSSORGSKY’S MASTERPIECE

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Also Starring Elena Bocharova, Yevgeny Akimov,

Vitaly Efanov, Mikhail Kolelishvili and Sergei Leiferkus

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CONDUCTED BY MUSIC DIRECTOR GRAEME JENKINS

DIRECTED BY STEPHEN LAWLESS

Originally Conceived by

Acclaimed 20

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Century Russian Filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky

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OPENING NIGHT: FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011 AT 7:30 PM

WITH ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCES

APRIL 3(m), 6, 9, 15 & 17(m

DALLAS, MARCH 11, 2011 – The Dallas Opera is proud to present the eagerly

awaited finale of the 2010-2011 “Dangerous Desires” Season: Modest Mussorgsky’scontroversial 1869-1874 masterpiece, a monumental work that has gone without a staging in Dallas for more than thirty years: BORIS GODUNOV, opening Friday, April 1,

2011 at 7:30 PM in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T

Performing Arts Center in Downtown Dallas.

Subsequent performances are scheduled for April 3(m), 6, 9, 15 & 17(m), 2011

with single tickets starting at just $25.

“If there were such a thing as the Russian National Opera—this would be it,”

explains Dallas Opera Artistic Director Jonathan Pell. “It’s an enormously powerful

work with moments of exceptional lyricism. This phenomenal opera stars,” he adds,

“many of the finest singers from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky (Kirov) Theatres; making it

one of the all-time, genuine must-see productions ever to be presented on any stage in

North Texas.

“In fact, you’d have to travel to St. Petersburg or Moscow to experience anything

remotely comparable. This is much more than a mere production—it’s the late Andrei

Tarkovsky’s singularly Russian vision of the world.”