Boris Godunov
Mussorgsky's quintessential Russian opera is captured live on stage in this performance by the Bolshoi Opera featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's revised vision and starring Evgeny Nesternko and Vladislav Piavko.
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Mussorgsky's quintessential Russian opera is captured live on stage in this performance by the Bolshoi Opera featuring Rimsky-Korsakov's revised vision and starring Evgeny Nesternko and Vladislav Piavko.
Based on the eponymous drama by A.S. Pushkin. TV version of the performance by the Drama and Comedy Theatre on Taganka (director Yuri Lyubimov).
The libretto is by Mussorgsky himself and takes the eponymous “romantic tragedy” by the celebrated Russian poet Alexander Pushkin as its starting point. Boris Godunov is Mussorgsky’s masterpiece and his only complete ope
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Universally acknowledged as the greatest of all Russian operas, this is a faithful and often dazzling production of the standard Rimsky-Korsakov version taped live at the Bolshoi in 1978. As Boris, the renowned Yevgeni N
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This film consists of a single dramatized scene from Pushkin's play of the same name.
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Lost silent film, known to be the very first film adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's tragedy of the same name, dealing with the last years of the Tsar's reign and the pretender Grigory (the false Dmitriy).