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 ...

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 ...

With booming voices and plentiful political peril, the San Francisco Symphony’s “Boris Godunov” feels oddly unsettling. The semi-staged production of Mussorgsky’s 19th-century opera based on the life ...

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 ...

For more than seven 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 ...

Independent Opera Company (IOC) will open its 14th season this November with a landmark event: the U.S. premiere of Modest Mussorgsky’s rarely performed opera The Fair at Sorochyntsi. Brimming with ...

It’s Boris Godunov, but not as we know it. Gone is the grandeur and melodrama, the uprising, the fountains, dancing and the female lead. Even the music is different. As you may have guessed, this is ...