The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunow (2021)

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.

Cast (6)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

René Pape

Boris Godunov

A

Ain Anger

Pimen

D

David Butt Philip

Grigory

A

Aleksey Bogdanov

Shchelkalov

M

Maxim Paster

Shuisky

Ryan Speedo Green

Varlaam

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