Boris Godounov
Subtitle: a national music drama in three acts
By: music by Modeste Petrovich Moussorgsky.
Contributors: Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 1799-1837.; Karamzin, Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, 1766-1826.; San Francisco Opera.
Publisher: San Francisco Opera
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Boris Fyodorovich Godunov, -- Czar of Russia, -- 1551 or 2-1605 -- Drama.; Operas -- Librettos.
Genres: Drama.; Librettos.
Work titles: Boris Godunov (1872).
Notes: Italian and English on opposite pages.

Includes synopsis, in English (p. [2-3]).

The libretto, by the composer, is based on Pushkin's Boris Godunov and N. N. Karamzin's History of the Russian Empire. Cf. Loewenberg. Annals of opera.

"San Francisco Opera Company grand opera libretto"--Cover.

Plates feature b&w portraits of 36 singers ("Members of San Francisco Opera Company; Gaetano Merola, general director; Paul Posz, manager").