05.03.2022

DAVID STEFFENS as Pimen in Stuttgart's "Boris Godunov"

After his highly acclaimed role debut as Ochs auf Lerchenau in Richard Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, Fasolt in Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold as the prelude to the new Stuttgart Ring and his house debut as the First Nazarene in Salome at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam, David Steffens now makes another weighty role debut in Stuttgart with Pimen in Modest Mussorgski's Boris Godunov.

With Boris Godunov, Mussorgski took a look back in the mid-19th century to a time of political turmoil in the early 17th century. The 2020 texts by Sergei Nevsky, set to music by the Belarusian Nobel Prize winner for literature Svetlana Alexievich, trace traumas of the Soviet 20th century up to the upheavals of the 1990s - and both spheres merge in the Stuttgart performance of Boris.

In addition to Pimen, David Steffens will also appear as Oroveso in Bellini's Norma as well as Commendatore in Mozart's Don Giovanni, before finishing his current Stuttgart season with three concert performances of Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust .

Cast

Adam Palka, Boris Godunov
Alexandra Urquiola, Fjodor | The Activist
Kyriaki Sirlantzi, Xenia | The Refugee
Christina Daletska, Fostress of Xenia | The Mother of the Suicide
Maxim Paster, Prince Wassilij Schujskij 
David Steffens, Pimen
Elmar Gilbertsson, Grigorij Otrepjew / The Jewish Partisan
Ramina Abdulla-zadè, The Jewish Partisan (as a child)
Urban Malmberg, The Jewish Partisan (as an old man)
Friedemann Röhlig, Warlaam
Stine Marie Fischer, A Publican | The Wife of the Collaborator
Petr Nekoranec, God's Fool | The Homeless Person
Jorge Ruvalcaba, Andrei Schtschelkalow
Alberto Robert, Missail | A Personal Boyar
Gerard Farreras, Mikititsch | Officer

Mitglieder des Staatsopernchores
Musiker*innen des Staatsorchesters Stuttgart

Titus Engel, Musicakl Direction
Paul-Georg Dittrich, Direction
Jana Findeklee | Joki Tewes, Stage Design
Pia Dederichs | Lena Schmid, Costume Design
Vincent Stefan, Video
Reinhard Traub, Lighting
Manuel Pujol, Chorus
Bernhard Moncado, Children´s chorus
Miron Hakenbeck, Dramaturgy