Film
Metropolitan Opera Live: Boris Godunov
- Director
- Stephen Wadsworth
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 140 mins
Naughty Boris Godunov comes to power by bumping off nine-year-old Dmitry, heir to the throne. Realising that he was born on the same day as the slain nipper, young monk Grigory decides to pose as the risen Dmitry in a bid to become Tsar.
Stephen Wadsworth‘s production of Modest Mussorgsky’s only completed opera is the first live opera from the Met since February 2020. Bass René Pape reprises his portrayal of the tortured tsar. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads this pillar of the Russian repertoire in its original 1869 version.
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