Guy de Mey the English National Opera; Lully's "Atys" under William Christie at the Paris Opera, in Florence and New York; Berg’s "Lulu" with Teresa Stratas in a production by Ruth Berghaus, and "Boris Godunov" with José Van Dam at the Brussels Opera La Monnaie; Händel’s "Judas Maccabaeus" with the San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Bach’s "St Matthew Passion" with the Concertgebouw orkest Amsterdam ; Berlioz’ "L’Enfance du Christ" at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence; Scarlatti’s "Mitridate" at the Schwetzinger Festspiele; Debussy’s "Pelléas et Mélisande" at the Nantes Opera ; Berg’s "Lulu" and Janáček’s "The Cunning Little Vixen" and "Katja Kabanova" at the Flemish
Boris Godunov (play) only in an English translation. This production was based on Meyerhold's design and featured Prokofiev's music, together with supplemental music by Peter Westergaard. Chester Dunning, Caryl Emerson, and Sergei Fomichev's "The Uncensored Boris Godunov" seeks to rescue Pushkin's play from obscurity. The Royal Shakespeare Company staged the British premiere of the original 1825 edition at Stratford on Avon in the fall of 2012. The play had been translated into English by Adrian Mitchell. A familiarity with the historical events surrounding the Time of Troubles — the interregnum period of relative anarchy following the end of the Rurik Dynasty (1598) and