Organization

Cantante

Tenore

Maxim Paster

Il principe Vasilij Šujskij

David Butt Philip

Grigorij

Basso

Ain Anger

Pimen

Baritono

René Pape

Boris Godunov

Coreografia

Apostolia Tsolaki

Luci

Duane Schuler

Costumi

Moidele Bickel

Scenografia

Ferdinand Wögerbauer

Regia

Stephen Wadsworth

Direzione d'orchestra

Sebastian Weigle

Mezzosoprano

Megan Marino

Fëdor

Soprano

Erika Baikoff

Ksenija

Eve Gigliotti

La nutrice di Ksenija

Tichina Vaughn

L'ostessa

Brenton Ryan

Misail

Richard Bernstein

Nikitič

Bradley Garvin

Mitjucha

Basso-baritono

Kevin Burdette

1. Ufficiale di polizia

Miles Mykkanen

L'innocente

Mark Schowalter

Un boiardo di corte

Aleksey Bogdanov

Andreij Ščelkalov

Ryan Speedo Green

Varlaam

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

russo

New York

Stati Uniti

Metropolitan Opera House

After an absence of nearly two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, spectacular live opera returned to cinemas worldwide with the launch of the Met’s 2021–22 Live in HD season. And this stirring performance of Boris Godunov—presented in Mussorgsky’s original one-act version from 1869—proved a perfect way to inaugurate the new season. Renowned German bass René Pape gives a riveting performance as the tortured title tsar, reprising a harrowing portrayal that he first brought to the Met a decade earlier, with Maestro Sebastian Weigle on the podium to lead the full forces of the Met Orchestra and Chorus. Alongside Pape, the sterling ensemble cast also features tenor David Butt Philip as Grigory, tenor Maxim Paster as Shuisky, baritone Aleksey Bogdanov as Shchelkalov, bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as Varlaam, and bass Ain Anger as Pimen in a vivid staging by director Stephen Wadsworth.

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