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 char
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