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 ...

It was clearly a man’s world in Tsarist Russia, if Mussorgsky’s 1869 masterpiece ‘Boris Godunov’ is accurate. Of 15 principal singers, only three are women and even they have minor roles. That coupled ...

Little of Richard Jones’s visual presentation was retained, just the costumes and some of the Personenregie. Thankfully absent was the mime re-enactment of the Tsarevich’s murder, which is repeated ad ...

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 ...