(The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunow)

Content: Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia, kicking off the Live in HD season on October 9, 2021. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version. Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people as well as the tsar himself. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

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Music

Runtime:

140 minutes

Year:

2021

Directors:

Stephen Wadsworth

Actors:

Boris Godunov

Pimen

Grigory

Shchelkalov

Shuisky

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Conductor

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