Boris Godunov - San Francisco Opera

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Why you already know Mussorgsky… At the Movies: Night on Bald Mountain—an orchestral piece by Mussorgsky. This segment of Disney’s Fantasia (1940) shows the demon Chernabog (above left) who has a power and intensity rarely seen in Disney films. The nocturnal Chernabog summons from their graves empowered restless souls, until driven away by the sound of a church bell. Noted actor Bela Lugosi (above right) served as a live action model for Chernabog, and spent several days at the Disney studio, where he was filmed doing evil, demonlike poses for animators to use as a reference. Suggested Listening: Pictures at an Exhibition—an orchestral piece by Mussorgsky. The ten pictures Mussorgsky depicts are: a gnome-shaped nutcracker; a troubadour plaintively singing outside an ancient castle; children vigorously playing and quarrelling in a park; a lumbering wooden Polish oxcart; a ballet of peeping chicks as they hatch from their shells; an argument between two Warsaw Jews, one haughty and vain, the other poor and garrulous; shrill women and vendors in a crowded marketplace; the eerie, echoing gloom of catacombs beneath Paris; the hut of a grotesque bone-chomping witch of Russian folk-lore; and a design for an entrance gate to Kiev. Mussorgsky clearly chose these subjects for the variety of moods they invoked and the opportunities they presented for a wide array of musical depictions. Cartoon inspiration: Boris Badenov is a fictional character in the 1960s animated cartoons Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show, collectively referred to as Rocky and Bullwinkle for short. He is voiced by Paul Frees. 22
Curricular Connections Chaliapin F. (Шаляпин Ф. И.) 1916 as Boris Godunov and Activities 23
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Page 25 and 26: Character Creation Think about the
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Page 29 and 30: Composition and Design Be a Compose
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Page 34 and 35: Aria - An extended musical passage
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Page 42 and 43: Production Questions and Activities
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