The Met Opera 2021-22: Boris Godunov

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Genre: Opera
Director: Stephen Wadsworth
Cast: Rene Pape

Release Date: 09/01/2021
Feature Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Trailers: Approx. 20 mins

Synopsis

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.