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Prince Igor

Prince Igor

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 1, 2014

Runtime

3h 22m

Genres

Music

User Score

80%

Original Title

Prince Igor

Production Companies

The Metropolitan Opera

Director

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Description

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, Borodin’s masterwork about an introspective prince’s military campaign against the invading Polovtsians returned in 2014 with a first-rate cast and an astonishing production by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Well worth the wait, the sets feature visually striking projections interlaced with lush flowering fields, and the first act delivers one of opera’s most exciting dance medleys, a portion of which went mainstream in the 1950s when Tony Bennett recorded “Stranger in Paradise.”