The original version of this work was rejected due to its lack of female roles, prompting its composer to include the "Polish scene" in the 1872 revised version. The work ends with a holy fool in the Kromy forest bemoaning his country's fate, while the prologue includes a ch
The original version of this work was rejected due to its lack of female roles, prompting its composer to include the "Polish scene" in the 1872 revised version. The work ends with a holy fool in the Kromy forest bemoaning his country's fate, while the prologue includes a church bell-laden Coronation Scene that, like the rest of the opera, was revised by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsaov. Based on a Pushkin drama, it features a False Dmitry and the titular (*) czar, whose death prompted the Time of Troubles. For 10 points, name this only completed opera of Modest Mussorgsky.
The original version of this work was rejected due to its lack of female roles, prompting its composer to include the "Polish scene" in the 1872 revised version.
{Boris Godunov}