Prince Igor

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 Polovtsians returned in 2014 with a first-rate cast and an astonishing production by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Well worth the wait, the sets feature visually striking projections interlaced with lush flowering fields, and the first act delivers one of opera’s most exciting dance medleys, a portion of which went mainstream in the 1950s when Tony Bennett recorded “Stranger in Paradise.”

Cast

Ildar Abdrazakov

Prince Igor

Mikhail Petrenko

Prince Galitsky

Sergey Semishkur

Vladimir Igorevich

Vladimir Ognovenko

Skula

Andrey Popov

Yeroshka

Oksana Dyka

Yaroslavna

Kiri Deonarine

Polovtsian Maiden

Anita Rachvelishvili

Konchakovna

Mikhail Vekua

Ovlur

Štefan Kocán

Khan Konchak