Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov



Performance from October 9, 2021

Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his overwhelming portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version which runs two-and-a-quarter hours with no intermission.


Sebastian Weigle, conductor


René Pape (Boris)

David Butt Philip (Grigory)

Ain Anger (Pimen)

Maxim Paster (Shuisky)

Aleksey Bogdanov (Shchelkalov)

Ryan Speedo Green (Varlaam)