The Metropolitan Opera: Boris GodunowMovie
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.
About The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunow
The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunow is a 2021 music movie directed by Stephen Wadsworth.
The production information lists a runtime of 2h 20m, an original language code of RU.
The credited cast includes René Pape, Ain Anger, David Butt Philip, Aleksey Bogdanov. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
