Kindesmord

verurteilt wegen Brandstiftung (seines eigenen Hauses) und dem dreifachen Kindesmord (seiner Kinder).

convicted of arson (his own house) and the triple child murder (his children).

Kindesmord, intrigierende Mönche und ein dem Wahnsinn verfallender Zar – Modest Mussorgski hat den thematischen Bogen weit gespannt in seiner ab 1868 entstandenen Choroper, mit der er über den Umweg eines historischen Stoffes das Bewusstsein für seine eigene Zeit zu wecken versuchte.

Child murder, scheming monks and a tsar lapsing into madness – Modest Mussorgsky spread the thematic arc wide in his choral opera, which he began to work on from 1868, and with which he attempted to awaken an awareness of his own time through the indirect route of a historic story. As an artist of the 19th century, he was driven by the psychology of the masses. Thus, in Boris Godunov, alongside the hero of the title, the main role is actually taken primarily by the Russian people, rejoicing, starving, demanding and questioning.