Boris Godunov

Modest Mussorgsky

Boris Godunov

Sep 28 - Oct 17

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Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version, which runs two-and-a-quarter hours with no intermission. Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people as well as the tsar himself.

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Sung In

Russian

Met Titles In

  • English
  • German
  • Spanish

Estimated Run Time

2 hrs 20 mins

  • House Opens

  • 140 mins

  • Opera Ends

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Creators

PRODUCTION

Stephen Wadsworth

Set Designer

Ferdinand Wögerbauer

COSTUME DESIGNER

Moidele Bickel

LIGHTING DESIGNER

Duane Schuler

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Composer

Modest Mussorgsky

Boris Godunov