Prince Igor

Overview

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 Polovtsians returned in 2014 with a first-rate cast and an astonishing production by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Well worth the wait, the sets feature visually striking projections interlaced with lush flowering fields, and the first act delivers one of opera’s most exciting dance medleys, a portion of which went mainstream in the 1950s when Tony Bennett recorded “Stranger in Paradise.”

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 1, 2014

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

United States of America

Production

The Metropolitan Opera

Cast

Anita Rachvelishvili,Barbara Dever,Eric Owens,Mikhail Petrenko,Andrey Popov,Vladimir Ognovenko,Oksana Dyka,Sergey Semishkur,Štefan Kocán,Ildar Abdrazakovand 2 more

Director

Dmitri Tcherniakov,Gary Halvorson

Writer

Alexander Borodin

Music

Alexander Borodin

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site

IMDb

tt3565332