Film

The Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunow

2021 · 2h 20m · Music

IMDb

6.9

Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia, kicking off the Live in HD season on October 9, 2021. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version. Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people as well as the tsar himself. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe.

René Pape

Boris Godunov

Ain Anger

Pimen

David Butt Philip

Grigory

Aleksey Bogdanov

Shchelkalov

Maxim Paster

Shuisky

Ryan Speedo Green

Varlaam

• Stephen WadsworthDirector

Release date

October 9, 2021

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

2h 20m

Genres

Music