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Boris Godunov
Boris Godunov © Agathe Poupeney / Opéra National de Paris
There are elements of Macbeth in this political fable, in which the ghost of the child that Boris has had killed in order to seize the throne appears as an impostor. Adapting this epic poem, Mussorgsky composed a meditation on the solitude of power, a populist drama in which the real protagonist is the Russian people with its burden of eternal suffering. Pushkin had already wondered, “What is a soul? A melody, perhaps…” Ivo Van Hove, no stranger to grand political frescos, stages his first production for the Paris Opera.
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