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The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunov

The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunov

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 9, 2021

Runtime

2h 20m

Original Title

The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunow

Director

Stephen Wadsworth

Description

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.