Organization

Singer

Tenor

Maxim Paster

Prince Vasiliy Ivanovich Shuysky

David Butt Philip

Grigoriy

Bass

Ain Anger

Pimen

Baritone

René Pape

Boris Godunov

Choreographer

Apostolia Tsolaki

Lighting designer

Duane Schuler

Costume designer

Moidele Bickel

Set designer

Ferdinand Wögerbauer

Stage director

Stephen Wadsworth

Conductor

Sebastian Weigle

Mezzo-soprano

Megan Marino

Fyodor

Soprano

Erika Baikoff

Kseniya

Eve Gigliotti

Kseniya's nurse

Tichina Vaughn

The innkeeper

Brenton Ryan

Misail

Richard Bernstein

Police officer in the inn

Bradley Garvin

Mityukha

Bass-baritone

Kevin Burdette

First police officer

Miles Mykkanen

Simpleton

Mark Schowalter

Court Boyar

Aleksey Bogdanov

Andrey Shchelkalov

Ryan Speedo Green

Varlaam

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Russian

New York City

United States

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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