Mussorgsky was inspired to compose his masterpiece Boris Godunov after reading Pushkin’s Shakespeare-inspired play of the same name. It features one of the most dramatically rewarding bass-baritone ...
Our eternal theme is crime and punishment. In Boris Godunov, problems of conscience and existential choice are linked to the history of the country. Pushkin says that these things are woven into a ...
All we share, and all we experience, echoes across time.
This is the Andrei Tarkovsky production of the famous Pushkin/Mussorgsky opera, performed in 1990 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, conducted by Valery Gergiev.