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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German director Peter Stein has withdrawn "for personal reasons" from the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Boris Godunov," the company announced Wednesday.
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. The ...
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 ...
Boris is more than good enough by Paul du Quenoy A New Production of Boris Godunov at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Modest Mussorgsky died of alcoholism at the relatively youthful—even for nineteenth-century ...
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 ...
La Scala’s CEO says decision to open new season with Boris Godunov ‘a good call’ — agency The choice of Boris Godunov as the season’s opening performance was announced by Meyer back on ...
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.
For the Tel Aviv Opera House, Boris Godunov is a special piece. In 1994, it was the inaugural opera of the newly opened Tel Aviv Per forming Arts Center (TAPAC).