Metropolitan Opera Boris Godunov (2021)

Bass René Pape the worlds reigning Boris reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgskys masterwork a pillar of the Russian repertoire in its original 1869 version which runs twoandaquarter hours with no intermission Stephen Wadsworths affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people as well as the tsar himself