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01/03/2014

Borodin's Prince Igor

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Live from the Met, Borodin's Prince Igor

Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Borodin's Prince Igor with Ildar Abdrazakov.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Borodin's opera Prince Igor, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda and starring Ilda Abdrazakov, Oksana Dyka and Mikhail Petrenko.

Tonight's Live from the Met is Borodin's epic, Prince Igor.

Famous for its Polovtsian Dances, Borodin based his 4-act opera Prince Igor on the 12th-century epic prose 'The Lay of Igor's Host', which tells of the Russian Prince Igor's campaign against the invading Cuman/Polovtsian tribes in 1185.
The opera returns to The Met for the first time in nearly a hundred years, with star bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov singing the eponymous role, and Gianandrea Noseda conducting.

Presented by Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff

Yaroslavna ..... Oksana Dyka (Soprano)
Konchakovna ..... Anita Rachvelieshvili (Mezzo-soprano)
Vladimir Igorevich ..... Sergey Semishkur (Tenor)
Prince Igor Svyatoslavich ..... Ildar Abdrazakov (Bass)
Prince Galitsky ..... Mikhail Petrenko (Bass)
Khan Konchak ..... Stefan Kocan (Bass)
Ovlur ..... Mikhail Vekua (Tenor)
Skula ..... Vladimir Ognovenko (Bass)
Yeroshka ..... Andrey Popov (Tenor)
Yaroslavna's nurse ..... Barbara Dever (Mezzo-soprano)
Polovtsian maiden ..... Kiri Deonarine (Soprano)
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Gianandrea Noseda (conductor).

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