The main selling point of Richard Jones’s new production of Boris Godunov for the Royal Opera is that it presents the original 1869 version in its entirety. This is important because, as far as I know ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Boris Godunov, a former confidant of Ivan the Terrible, rises to the rank of tsar ...

Fyodor (Joshua Abrams) listens to father Boris (Bryn Terfel) on good governanceAll images by Bill Knight for The Arts Desk The playback repetitions are the thing to catch the conscience of the ...

MILAN (AP) — Italy’s most treasured opera house, Teatro alla Scala, opened its new season Wednesday with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov,” against the backdrop of Ukrainian protests that the cultural ...

With booming voices and plentiful political peril, the San Francisco Symphony’s “Boris Godunov” feels oddly unsettling. The semi-staged production of Mussorgsky’s 19th-century opera based on the life ...

Ferrucio Furlanetto (bass, Boris Godunov); Robert Holl (bass, Pimen); Marian Talaba (tenor, Grigory); Nadia Krasteva (mezzo-soprano, Marina Mniszek); Falk Struckmann ...

MILAN (AP) — Milan’s famed La Scala opera house on Monday announced the celebration of next season’s gala premiere with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov,? a move it hopes will underline the separation ...

Jones takes his cue for the pervasive spinning-top image from one line in which scheming boyar Shuisky jerks Boris's guilt into actionClarity and imagination are rigorously welded. Russian audiences ...

MILAN (AP) — Milan’s famed La Scala opera house on Monday announced the celebration of next season’s gala premiere with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov,″ a move it hopes will underline the separation ...

Time must have been on the minds of much of the audience attending the first night of the Kirov Opera’s week-long residence at the Royal Opera House. For one thing, there’s the incessant sound of ...

Mussorgsky was inspired to compose his masterpiece Boris Godunov after reading Pushkin’s Shakespeare-inspired play of the same name. It features one of the most dramatically rewarding bass-baritone ...