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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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Mussorgsky's opera Khovansschina is based on a true story: There really was an uprising against Peter the Great, and the rebels were put down. What happened then is another story. We'll hear just the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Kirov Orchestra has a venerable old concert hall not far from the Moscow River in St. Petersburg. And they were the ones to premiere Mussorgsky's opera Kovanshchina in 1886. So they have an ...