For the first time in nearly 100 years Borodins defining Russian epic,
famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the MET for the first time
with a Slavic, Russophone cast.
Dmitri Tcherniakovs production
is a brilliant psychological journey through the mind of its conflicted
hero, and his […] wonderful staging is dreamlike, wrenchingly human and
viscerally theatrical. (New York Times)
Star bass-baritone Ildar
Abdrazakov takes on the monumental title role and […] masterfully
probed Igors guilt and regret. (Wall Street Journal) |