Boris Godunov at Royal Opera: Psychologically probing Russian epic

Boris Godunov at Royal Opera: Psychologically probing Russian epic - 4/5 Richard Jones’ staging of Mussorgsky’s opera ...

Bryn Terfel is an intensely felt Boris Godunov in the Royal Opera’s sturdy revival

This might seem to presume a Russian singer in the title role, but Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel has sung Boris in this ...

Show must go on: London opera chief steps in for ailing tenor

A theatre boss -- still dressed in his everyday workwear of jumper and chinos -- stepped in mid-performance to make sure the ...
Classic FM

Audience boos as Royal Opera head of music valiantly steps in for sick tenor

French tenor Roberto Alagna, singing the role of Calàf, became ill after the second act. With no understudy available, Richard Hetherington, head of music at the Royal Opera, took to the stage after ...

Opera is waging a battle to save itself in the modern world — and against self-inflicted wounds

Jonas Kaufmann will no longer sing at London’s Royal Opera House — because, of all things, the pay is too low. “I don’t know ...
The Independent on MSN

Audience members boo after Royal Opera boss replaces sick tenor

Nessun Dormageddon: Audience members ‘boo and throw things’ after Royal Opera House chief steps in for sick tenor - Other fans defend Richard Hetherington, who ‘deserves a medal’ after stepping in at ...
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Royal Opera’s Boris Godunov has scarily accurate echoes of modern Russia

Modest Mussorgsky’s first and greatest opera was rewritten by many hands – including Rimsky-Korsakov’s – before people realised that its first version was the best. And it’s Richard Jones’s eloquent ...
BroadwayWorld

Review: BORIS GUDUNOV, Royal Ballet & Opera

If Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov were a dinner party, Richard Jones’s Russian-language revival at the Royal Opera House would be ...