Opera flourishes: in spite of all the financial cutbacks, the UK’s opera companies are managing to create new work and ...

It's 1598: tsar Fyodor dies and guards and priests force the crowd to beg Boris to become tsar of Russia. Finally, the coronation takes place in the Kremlin's cathedral square in an imposing ceremony ...

Boris Godunov is an opera by Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881). The work was composed between 1868 and 1873 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It is Mussorgsky's only completed opera and is considered his ...

The Paris Opera’s new production of Mussorgsky’s tale of a ruthless leader haunted by guilt over his bloody path to power boasts a universality of Shakespearean dimensions. Almost from the beginning, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Boris Godunov, a former confidant of Ivan the Terrible, rises to the rank of tsar ...

2 Photos: First Look at the Metropolitan Opera’s New Production of Bellini’s I PURITANI 3 Review Roundup: I PURITANI at the Metropolitan Opera Abut the artist: Ukrainian bass Anatoli Kotscherga makes ...

A scene from Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov is pictured. FREDONIA — Live at the Met, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live, high definition opera transmissions to theaters around ...

Two great artists from the same time and country always invite comparison. This is as true in music as other fields. Thus we compare (as well as pair) Bach and Handel, Mozart and Haydn, Wagner and ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...