Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between ambition and paranoia. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s Russian masterwork in its ...

History will play out in front of your eyes as the ruthless Tsar Boris Godunov grapples with his sacrifices in the name of power. After being crowned the Tsar of Russia, his spiral into paranoia ...

Modest Mussorgsky died of alcoholism at the relatively youthful—even for nineteenth-century Russia—age of forty-two, leaving his magnum opus unfinished. Boris Godunov, an adaptation of an 1826 play by ...

Freshman Adam Zivkovic portrays Dmitry the Pretender, the challenger to the Russian throne, in the world premiere production of "Boris Godunov." Princeton scholars, students and artists have worked ...