Prince Igor

Prince Igor

202 mins | Music | March 1, 2014

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.”

Prince Igor

202 mins | Music | March 1, 2014

Prince Igor
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.”
Producers The Metropolitan Opera
Original title Prince Igor
Directors Dmitri Tcherniakov, Gary Halvorson
Writers Alexander Borodin

Cast

Ildar Abdrazakov

as Prince Igor

Mikhail Petrenko

as Prince Galitsky

Sergey Semishkur

as Vladimir Igorevich

Andrey Popov

as Yeroshka

Oksana Dyka

as Yaroslavna

Kiri Deonarine

as Polovtsian Maiden

Anita Rachvelishvili

as Konchakovna

Mikhail Vekua

as Ovlur

Štefan Kocán

as Khan Konchak

Barbara Dever

as Yaroslavna's Nurse

Eric Owens

as Self - Host