MET 2021/22 - MODEST MUSSORGSKY: BORIS GODUNOV

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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Director: Stephen Wadsworth

Conductor: Sebastian Weigle
Cast: René Pape (Boris Godunov), David Butt Philip (Grigory), Maxim Paster (Shuisky), Alexey Bogdanov (Shchelkalov), Ain Anger (Pimen),  Ryan Speedo Green (Varlaam)