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 ...

Do lords or mobs shape the lives of nations? Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, which compresses seven gruesome years of Russian history into four and a half glorious hours, abounds with both. The ...

It's 1598: tsar Fyodor dies and guards and priests force the crowd to beg Boris to become tsar of Russia. Finally, the coronation takes place in the Kremlin's cathedral square in an imposing ceremony ...

How Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov captured the heart of a nation As part of our daily series Armchair Arts, Rupert Christiansen guides you through Mussorgsky's epic opera of 1873 Gift this article ...

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 ...

From the Wales Millennium Centre, a work of political machinations and religious upheaval in Welsh National Opera’s production of Modest Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina. Premiered in St Petersburg in 1886, ...

This week would have been the 128th birthday of one of Russian’s most famous composers, Modest Mussorgsky. Some of you might know him as the composer of Pictures at an Exhibition, but all of you know ...

A gaunt young actor is staggering about the chalked-up floor of a rehearsal room, a vodka bottle to his lips. "Russia is dying," he cries. "The old order must die. Russia will be reborn. The time is ...