The Bolshoi goes British for Mussorgsky
NewsThe British director Simon McBurney has been put in charge of Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina by the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
The show, opening in June, is a co-production with Covent Garden and the Met.
McBurney, founder of the Complicité theatre company, is working on Musorgsky’s original drafts with his brother Gerard, a noted authority on Russian music.
His finest moment since he directed the Dibley church choir
Excellent director, wish I could get there to see it.
I remember that our regretted friend, Brian Galliford, spoke very highly of Simon. May his work honour the memory of this exceptional artist.
Not sure how newsworthy this is. Stephen Lawless directed Boris Godunov at the Kirov more than 30 years ago before the name change. He, Sir David Pountney and Sir Graham Vick have all directed productions at the Bolshoi in Moscow over the last 20 or so years.