Metropolitan Opera: Boris Godunov Cast & Creative
Bass Rene Pape takes on one of opera's greatest roles in a production by celebrated theater and opera director Peter Stein, in his Met debut. "Boris Godunov is a masterpiece," Stein says. "The challenge to transmit the enormous emotional depth of the whole thing. Boris is the czar, but he is expressing a problem we all have: the consequences of human actions."