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’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 ...

Which is no doubt why it is very seldom staged, and why I thought it worthwhile to go to Hamburg to catch up with David Pountney’s new production at the Staatsoper in the city of Brahms, who was born ...

Russian Ildar Abdrazakov sings the title role in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Alexander Borodin’s "Prince Igor" to be broadcast live at noon Saturday, March 1, at the Clark Art Institute, ...

Unfortunately veteran director Yuri Alexandrov’s very selective take on Borodin’s fitfully wondrous score asks for not a moment of dramatic truth from its principal singers: a great shame, because the ...

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 ...

“Prince Igor,” the fourth opera to be given this season by the Art of Musical Russia,, will be presented next Friday night at Mecca Temple. George Baklanoff will appear in the title role. In addition ...

Program distributed for performances of "Prince Igor" by Borodin (see caption title on p. [8]). Publication information from p. [3] of cover. The cover illustration is signed "J. Bilibine, 1928"; the ...

lexander Borodin made his living as a chemist and worked on his sprawling epic opera "Prince Igor" on the side for 18 years. He died in 1887, leaving a patchwork of fragments for Glazunov and ...