Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunov
2021
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Bass René Pape the world’s reigning Boris reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork a pillar of the Russian repertoire in its original 1869 version which runs two-and-a-quarter hours with no intermission. Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people as well as the tsar himself.
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