Borodin’s defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production is a brilliant psychological journey ...

Prince Igor is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the Ancient Russian epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts ...

FOR her production of Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor, Francesca Zambello has set a simple goal: entertaining her audience. "This is a very popularity-driven, conservative production," said the ...

Live performance from the Metropolitan Opera, March 1, 2014. Absent from the Met stage since 1917, Borodin’s masterwork about an introspective prince’s military campaign against the invading ...

Unfortunately veteran director Yuri Alexandrov’s very selective take on Borodin’s fitfully wondrous score asks for not a moment of dramatic truth from its principal singers: a great shame, because the ...

Why a production of Prince Igor was a missed opportunity to call a truce between opera and dance. A scene from Alexander Borodin’s Prince Igor, with Ildar Abdrazakov as Prince Igor By signing up, you ...

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“Prince Igor,” the fourth opera to be given this season by the Art of Musical Russia,, will be presented next Friday night at Mecca Temple. George Baklanoff will appear in the title role. In addition ...