La Scala management has insisted that ‘Boris Godunov’ is not propaganda for Russian autocrat Putin, while a Kharkiv-born Milanese protest leader notes that the opera house had nine months to ...

German director Peter Stein has withdrawn "for personal reasons" from the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Boris Godunov," the company announced Wednesday.

New York. The Met's new production of Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov" underwent a dramatic upheaval this summer when its scheduled director, Peter Stein, withdrew, citing annoyance over visa bureaucracy.

At this stage of his presidency, George W. Bush might not enjoy Boris Godunov, despite the stirring production now at Houston Grand Opera. In Modest Mussorgsky's striking opera about weighty ...

Modest Mussorgsky died of alcoholism at the relatively youthful—even for nineteenth-century Russia—age of forty-two, leaving his magnum opus unfinished. Boris Godunov, an adaptation of an 1826 play by ...

The original 1869 version of Boris Godunov may lack the sumptuous retouching of the well-meaning Rimsky-Korsakov’s revision, but it plays to the strengths of Bryn Terfel, returning in the title ...

The choice of Boris Godunov as the season’s opening performance was announced by Meyer back on June 6 ROME, November 22. /TASS/. Dominique Meyer, the artistic director and chief executive of ...

When the curtain rises on Boris Godunov, the gaudily painted spinning top that adorns it turns out to be a giant version of the toy with which a small boy in a white suit is playing.But the stage ...

Burchuladze reprises Boris The Israeli Opera presents Mussorgsky’s masterpiece ‘Boris Godunov.’ By MAXIM REIDER MARCH 7, 2013 12:56 ...