Freshman Adam Zivkovic portrays Dmitry the Pretender, the challenger to the Russian throne, in the world premiere production of "Boris Godunov." Princeton scholars, students and artists have worked ...

The Metropolitan Opera continues to show off the epic side of opera. Following its season-opening offering, a redesigned production of the first installment of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, the Met brings ...

For opera fans, Boris Godunov means a single thing: one of the juiciest roles basses have to sing. The legendary Russian Fyodor Chaliapin set the standard in 1908 when heintroduced Modest Mussorgsky's ...

Glorious singing, powerful music and a rousing performance added to the intensity of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, but the solemness of the plot left us exhausted ...

Do lords or mobs shape the lives of nations? Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, which compresses seven gruesome years of Russian history into four and a half glorious hours, abounds with both. The ...

It is not often that we’d advocate the concert performance of an opera as preferable to a full staging, but to each rule there are exceptions. The presentation of Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov by Antonio ...

The San Francisco Symphony’s semi-staged opera productions have become must-see events. This week, music director Michael Tilson Thomas, his orchestra, and the S.F. Symphony Chorus under Ragnar Bohlin ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD programming is back, and its new season begins with a rarity — the original ...