You can’t help but love Modest Mussorgsky; not only was he a brilliant composer, he was such a total, Dostoyevskian mess. This month, his great opera Khovanshchina is being performed by the Met after ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina – set in the troubled 1680s – can almost describe current events, say directors A Russian political leader sings about war with Ukrainians and the need for a “durable peace” ...

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 ...

As part of our daily series Armchair Arts, Rupert Christiansen guides you through Mussorgsky's epic opera of 1873 Rupert Christiansen was the opera critic and arts features writer for The Telegraph ...

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 ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

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 ...