At the end of this opera's first act, a man tries to escape an illiterate policeman by pretending to read an an arrest warrant.
At the end of this opera's first act, a man tries to escape an illiterate policeman by pretending to read an an arrest warrant. The third act of this opera introduces the character of Rangoni, a Jesuit who wishes to co-opt Marina's schemes in order to spread Catholicism. Its last two acts feature a Holy Fool who is first robbed and then refuses to pray for the title character after accusing him of murdering a (*) child. The first act of this opera includes Gregory's waking from a nightmare as Pimen finishes writing a history book, and it ends as peasants prepare to face a Polish invasion. Vasily Shuisky interlocutes for visions of the murdered Dmitri that haunt the title character, a tsar of Russia, in, for 10 points, what historical opera by Modest Mussorgsky?
At the end of this opera's first act, a man tries to escape an illiterate policeman by pretending to read an an arrest warrant.
Boris Godunov