Inhalt
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Part I Background:
- 1 Tsar Boris in history
- 2 Musorgsky's literary sources, Karamzin and Pushkin
- 3 Narrative and musical synopsis of the opera
- 4 History of the composition, rejection, revision, and acceptance of Boris Godunov
- 5 A tale of two productions - St Petersburg (1874–1882), Paris (1908)
- Part II Entr'acte: 6 Boris and the censor: documents
- 7 The opera through the years: selected texts in criticism
- Part III Interpretation:
- 8 The Boris libretto as a formal, literary, and historical problem
- 9 The music
- 10 Boris Godunov during the jubilee decade: the 1980s and beyond
- Discography
- Bibliography
- Index