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UPCOMING EVENTS

The University of Illinois at Chicago and
Lyric Opera of Chicago present

Boris Godunov Symposium:
A program exploring the opera by Modest Musorgsky

Saturday September 24, 1994
Illinois Room Complex, Third Floor
750 South Halsted, University of Illinois at Chicago

10:00 am

Welcome
Jay A. Levine , Dean, Liberal Arts and Sciences, UIC

Lecture
Richard Taruskin , University of California , Berkeley
“Musorgsky vs. Musorgsky: The Two Distinct Authorial Versions of Boris Godunov”

Lecture
Caryl Emerson, Princeton University
“The Boris Plot on Stage: Karamzin, Pushkin, and Musorgsky as Historical Thinkers”

Round Table Discussion
Moderator: Robert Oldani, Arizona State University
Panelists: Richard Taruskin, Caryl Emerson, James Cracraft (UIC) and Lauren Leighton (UIC)
“Boris Godunov, Glasnost, and Beyond"

2:30 pm

Slide Lecture
Janet Kennedy, Indiana University
“Russia on Stage: Musorgsky's Operas and the ‘National Style' in Russian Theater Design and History Painting”

Round Table Discussion
Moderator: Ardis Krainik, Lyric Opera's General Director
Panelists: Conductor Bruno Bartoletti and artists participating in the production

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