Released:
2021-10-09

Overview:
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.

Director:
Stephen Wadsworth

Runtime:
2h 20min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  René Pape
  as
  Boris Godunov
• 
  Ain Anger
  as
  Pimen
• 
  David Butt Philip
  as
  Grigory
• 
  Aleksey Bogdanov
  as
  Shchelkalov
• 
  Maxim Paster
  as
  Shuisky