More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . er Boris Godounow wasborn about 1551 and rose to be the chief adviser of the RussianCzar Ivan the Terrible, marrying the daughter of the Czars cruelfavorite Walynta Skuratow. Ivan then made Irene, Boriss sister,the bride of his half-witted son Theodore. At Ivans death Borisbecame one of the guardians of the young Dimetreus, a son ofIvan by another wife, and at the same time practically the rulerof the empire. Theodore died childless and shortly afterwardsDi
More chapters of opera : being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from 1908 to 1918 . er Boris Godounow wasborn about 1551 and rose to be the chief adviser of the RussianCzar Ivan the Terrible, marrying the daughter of the Czars cruelfavorite Walynta Skuratow. Ivan then made Irene, Boriss sister,the bride of his half-witted son Theodore. At Ivans death Borisbecame one of the guardians of the young Dimetreus, a son ofIvan by another wife, and at the same time practically the rulerof the empire. Theodore died childless and shortly afterwardsDimetreus also died, murdered some said, though without particularfoundation, by Boris. Boris then became Czar and ruled, on thewhole wisely. At his death in 1605 he left the throne to his youngson, who was shortly afterwards murdered. The opera, however,starts with the hypothesis that Boris has murdered the young Di-metreus (or Dmitri). Boris, overcome with remorse, has soughtrepentance and seclusion in a convent near Moscow and the curtain *A Second Book of Operas.* By Henry Edward York: Macmillan Company, 1917, p. X o < Q < o 3o-oo O o
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