GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: Boris Godunov (2022)

Premieres Friday, March 4, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2

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 original 1869 version. Stephen Wadsworth’s production captures the hope and suffering of the Russian people as well as the tsar himself.

GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET “Boris Godunov“ premieres in 2022 as part of #PBSForTheArts, a multiplatform campaign that celebrates the arts in America. The collection of programs is available at pbs.org/arts and the PBS Video App. Curated conversation and digital shorts are also available on PBS social media platforms using #PBSForTheArts.

The performance is sung in Russian with English subtitles.

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Ain Anger and David Butt Philip in GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "Boris Godunov."

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Maxim Paster, Megan Marino and René Pape in GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "Boris Godunov.”

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Tichina Vaughn, Ryan Speedo Green and Brenton Ryan in GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "Boris Godunov."

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René Pape in GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "Boris Godunov.”

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Aleksey Bogdanov, René Pape, and Maxim Paster in GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "Boris Godunov.”

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Erika Baikoff, René Pape and Megan Marino in GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET "Boris Godunov.”

Courtesy of Marty Sohl/Met Opera

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Credits:

Directed for television by Brian Large and hosted by soprano Patricia Racette. Jay David Saks is the music producer. Produced by the Metropolitan Opera in association with PBS and The WNET Group, bringing the best of the Metropolitan Opera into the homes of opera fans across the country. Directed for the screen by Gary Halvorson. For the Met: Mia Bongiovanni and Elena Park are supervising producers and Louisa Briccetti and Victoria Warivonchik are producers. Peter Gelb is executive producer. For GREAT PERFORMANCES: Bill O’Donnell is series producer; David Horn is executive producer.