A unique collaboration brings Andrei Tarkovsky 's acclaimed Royal Opera House production of Musorgsky's masterpiece to the stage of Leningrad's Kirov Theatre where the work premiered in 1874. Tarkovsky left the Soviet
Union in 1983 and died four years later. Boris Godunov was the great film director's only opera production.
Tonight's conductor is Kirov music director
Valery Gergiev. British bass Robert Lloyd makes his Russian debut playing the tormented tsar, Boris Godunov.
The production is staged by director Stephen Lawless with designs by Nicholas Dvigoubsky.
Television lighting Alan Woolford Television sound Graham Haines Producers Peter Maniura and Dennis Marks
Director Humphrey Burton
0 SIMULTANEOUS BROADCAST: with Radio 3.