The Met Live in HD:
Boris Godunov

New Production

René Pape takes on one of the greatest bass roles in a production by renowned theater and opera director Peter Stein, in his Met debut. Valery Gergiev conducts Mussorgsky’s epic spectacle that captures the suffering and ambition of a nation. “Boris Godunov is a masterpiece,” Stein says. “The challenge is to transmit the enormous emotional depth of the whole thing. Boris is the czar, but he is expressing a problem we all have: the consequences of human actions.” Aleksandrs Antonenko, Vladimir Ognovenko, and Ekaterina Semenchuk lead the huge cast.

Conductor Valery Gergiev
Princess Marina E katerina Semenchuk
Dimitri Aleksandrs Antonenko
Shuisky Oleg Balashov
Rangoni Evgeny Nikitin
Boris Godunov René Pape
Pimen Mikhail Petrenko
Varlaam Vladimir Ognovenko

This event is sponsored by M&T Bank, Package Pavement Company, Inc. and Red Wing Properties, Inc.

Our 2010/11 The Met: Live in HD broadcasts are made possible in large part through the generous support of the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust, the Louis Greenspan Charitable Trust, the Dr. Edwin A. Ulrich Charitable Trust, and the Benjamin R. Strong Opera Fund and the Stephen & Julia Dunwell Fund, both of the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley.