Martha Lipton Emilia in "Otello". She also performed as Mrs. Sedley in "Peter Grimes" in 1948, Mother Goose in "The Rake's Progress", in 1953, and Madame Larina in the 1957 Peter Brook staging of "Eugene Onegin". Her final appearance at the Met was as the Innkeeper in "Boris Godunov" in 1961. Lipton also sang in Europe. She sang the title role in Benjamin Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia" for the English Opera Group in 1954, and in 1956 starred as Augusta in the world premiere of Douglas Moore's seminal opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe" at the Central City Opera House in
Boris Godunov Skuratova-Belskaya, the daughter of Malyuta Skuratov-Belskiy, head of the oprichniks. In 1580, the Tsar chose Boris Godunov's sister Irina Godunova (1557 – 26 October/23 November 1603) to be the wife of his second son and eventual heir, the fourteen-year-old Feodor Ivanovich (1557–1598). On this occasion, Godunov was promoted to the rank of "Boyar". On 15 November 1581, Godunov was present when the Tsar murdered his own eldest son, the crown prince Ivan. Godunov tried to intervene but received blows from the Tsar's sceptre. The elder Ivan immediately repented, and Godunov rushed to get help for the Tsarevich, who died four