Prince Igor is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the Ancient Russian epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts ...

Borodin, one of the most emblematic parts catalog epic Russian, returns to the MET after almost a century of absence. Widely known for its Polovtsian Dances, the work is a breathtaking journey through ...

Why a production of Prince Igor was a missed opportunity to call a truce between opera and dance. A scene from Alexander Borodin’s Prince Igor, with Ildar Abdrazakov as Prince Igor By signing up, you ...

Borodin’s defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production is a brilliant psychological journey ...

Not since the Bolsheviks took over Russia has there been such a musical orgy as that which began in Leningrad last week, promised to run for ten full days. Soviet Russia was having its first big music ...

Russian-American relations may be trending downward, but things are looking up at the Met, where the young director Dmitri Tcherniakov (along with the conductor, Gianandrea Noseda) has radically but ...

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 ...

From only the first phrases of Alexander Borodin’s Overture to the opera “Prince Igor,” the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra presented an impressive mix of buoyantly vibrating strings, precise woodwinds ...