The Metropolitan Opera Boris Godunow

Bass René Pape the worlds 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 Mussorgskys masterwork a pillar of the Russian repertoire in its original 1869 version Stephen Wadsworths 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 Mets awardwinning Live in HD series bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe