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Great Performances Episode 49.17 Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov
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Great Performances Episode 49.17 Great Performances at the Met: Boris Godunov

Episode Premiere
February 6, 2022
Genre
Comedy
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/
Episode Premiere
February 6, 2022
Genre
Comedy
Period
1971 -
Production Co
-
Distributor
PBS
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/
Main Cast
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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. Met Opera soprano Angel Blue hosts.