Metropolitan Opera: Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov The second day of this season second run is broadcasted world wide on webradio 2011年3月12日 現地NY正午 日本時間13日2時~
Boris Godunov ..... Ren? Pape (bass) Marina ..... Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano) Dimitri ..... Aleksandrs Antonenko (tenor) Shuisky ..... Oleg Balashov (tenor) Rangoni ..... Evgeny Nikitin (bass-baritone)
Varlaam ..... Vladimir Ognovenko (bass Shchelkalov : Alexey Markov (baritone Holy Fool : ANDREI POPOV (tenor
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan opera Conductor, Valery Gergiev is replaced by Pavel Smelkov
4 hrs., 30 min.
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Related: THE CAST (in order of vocal appearance) Saturday, October 23, 2010, 12 Noon Nikitich bass, VALERIAN RUMINSKI
Shchelkalov baritone, ALEXEJ MARKOV Prince Shuisky tenor, OLEG BALASHOV Boris Godunov bass, REN? PAPE Pimen bass, MIKHAIL PETRENKO Grigori (The Pretender Dimitri)
Hostess of the Inn mezzo, OLGA SAVOVA Varlaam bass, VLADIMIR OGNOVENKO Missail tenor, NIKOLAI GASSIEV Police Officer bass, GENNADY BEZZUBENKOV Xenia soprano, JENNIFER ZETLAN Fyodor treble, JONATHAN A. MAKEPEACE Nurse mezzo, LARISA SHEVCHENKO Boyar tenor, BRIAN FRUTIGER Marina mezzo, EKATERINA SEMENCHUK Rangoni baritone, EVGENY NIKITIN Holy Fool tenor, ANDREI POPOV Chernikovsky tenor, MARK SCHOWALTER Lavitsky baritone, ANDREW OAKDEN Khrushchov tenor, DENNIS PETERSEN
Q: Which is the bigger challenge, singin' the role of Boris or the emotional journey that you go on?
Rene Pape : Um-- actually both. It's very very demanding, it's very hard to sing this part, it's also very hard to have all the emotions of Boris, and when you finish this performance, you're in another area, you know, so - is not easy to sing it and to have this all this feeling.
Q: One point is clear that you decided you're ready to take Boris on.
RP: Ah-, I cannot tell you. It comes when it comes. So you have to wait of course a couple of years and you cannot sing when you just start your career and yeah, now we are here, I am here, it's under point. (giggling)
Q: You are being off during this act, you have special routine to prepare you to go back on stage after being out of the second act,
RP: No you're doing many things to do, you do your e-mail, you read a little bit, you talk to your colleagues - yeah! you just relax.
Q: Upcoming act you contend your death scene, are you thinking about it during your break or just let it unfold in a moment you let it have?
RP: It comes when it's on stage, yes-yes, I don't think about.
Q: I understand your Russian colleagues have special nickname for you. Can we share that with us?
RP: I don't know, hahahaha-, what do you have? I don't know.
Q: hahahaha-ok, Reducica?
RP: Reducica? I don't know, I never heard that.
Q: Ok, I got to check my sources.
RP: Ok, hahaha.
Q: Next season you will be appearing Mephistopheles in a new production of Gounod's Faust, are you lookin forward that?
RP: Yes, of course, I did it last production of Faust here and lookin' forward, of course and I love to be here in New York, and we will see.
Q: before, last year you honored by the MET Guild Mastersinger event, and you performed Wolf songs with your company Brian Zeger and I know I was there then, you seemed to be transported both you and Brian transported like you in another world, just talked about here about Boris,
RP: Hm hm,
Q: I'm wondering, is it easy to go to that place, the place being transported? does it happen often to you? and is that which you always wish for when you sing?
RP: When you are on stage, you are in another world so you sing your songs and the text is always different and, yeah, what can I tell you when I'm singin' Boris? I am Boris and when I sing Wolf's Michelangelo songs, when I'm singin' in Tristan, and yeah, that's about it.
Q: Thank you for few moments, it's always good to see Rene Pape.