Prince Igor (2014)

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera March 1 2014 Absent from the Met stage since 1917 Borodins masterwork about an introspective princes military campaign against the invading Polovtsians returned in 2014 with a firstrate cast and an astonishing production by Dmitri Tcherniakov Well worth the wait the sets feature visually striking projections interlaced with lush flowering fields and the first act delivers one of operas most exciting dance medleys a portion of which went mainstream in the 1950s when Tony Bennett recorded Stranger in Paradise