"For Sokurov, Boris's guilt is an implacable, all-consuming force".
Behold the awesomeness of Alexander Sokurov's Boris Godunov, at Bolshoi theatre in Moscow. The Bolshoi is not, for once, using the Rimskij-Korsakov orchestration (used since the Soviet era): what they chose, instead, is Modest Mussorgsky's stark original of 1871 (that includes the Polish Act). Alexander Vedernikov conducts, Mikhail Kazakov and Taras Schonda alternate in the title role.
