Rating: - The best Boris Godunov Opera ever filmed!?
Reviewing my comments and those written by others about this extaordinary opera, I do not think I can better what has been written in THE GRAMOPHONE
magazine, "This is masterly on almost every count, ... Read More
Rating: - Best Boris
Having seen several live performances of this extraordinary opera, among them the Metropolitan, (I am 75), I consider this DVD a real treasure!
Rating: - Not for the faint of heart
Mussorgsky's opera BORIS GODUNOV is not for the faint of heart in any way! The story deals with the deception and treachery of Boris Godunov, a government minister in Russia in the early 1600s who becomes ... Read More
Rating: - Boris Godunov
I think that this DVD is the greatest opera DVD in my collection. The production itself is beautiful. All of the singers are fabulous. Rarely (particularly in a live production)are all of the singers first ... Read More
Rating: - Buy it for Mussorgsky's final version and Robert Lloyd's Boris
First, he has a pretty voice.
It's hard to find pretty bass-voices.
Even great singers like Ghiaurov can't be said without any reservation to posses a pretty voice.
