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Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.

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  • Aleksandr Borisov

    Aleksandr Borisov

    Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky

  • Nikolai Cherkasov

    Nikolai Cherkasov

    Vladimir Stasov

  • Vladimir Balashov

    Vladimir Balashov

    Mily Balakirev

  • Yuri Leonidov

    Yuri Leonidov

    Alexander Borodin

  • Andrei Popov

    Andrei Popov

    Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  • Bruno Frejndlikh

    Bruno Frejndlikh

    Cesar Cui

  • Fyodor Nikitin

    Fyodor Nikitin

    Alexander Dargomyzhky

  • Lyubov Orlova

    Lyubov Orlova

    Yuliya Platonova

  • Lidiya Shtykan

    Lidiya Shtykan

    Aleksandra

Overview

Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.

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