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Director of the City of London Festival, Ian Ritchie read Law and Music at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a choral scholar, and studied singing at the Royal College of Music and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama. He
Owen Rees is a Reader in the Faculty of Music, Fellow, Tutor and Organist of The Queen's College, and Senior Research Fellow of Somerville College. Born in 1964, he read music at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he held an
Musorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov (1872) is set in the ‘Time of Troubles’, using Pushkin’s incisive verse tragedy on the chaotic period preceding the establishment of the Romanovs.
The rousing finale of Mikhail Glinka's patriotic A Life for the Tsar (1836) guaranteed it a place as the traditional season opener in Russian opera houses.
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