BORODIN : PRINCE IGOR

Radio New Zealand Concert network
Sunday 30th of March  2014 at 6.03 - 10.35 pm

BORODIN: Prince Igor, an opera in four acts
Borordin's only opera is based on an anonymous medieval epic, The Tale of Igor's Campaign, which relates a historical incident: a raid by Prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the nomadic Central Asian Polovtsian tribes in the late 12th century, an era remembered as a time of formative national consciousness and the emergence of the modern Russian culture
Prince Igor........................ Ildar Abdrazakov
Yaroslavna....................... Oksana Dyka
Vladimir Igorevich.......... Sergey Semishkur
Vladimir Yaroslavich...... Mikhail Petrenko
Konchak........................... Stefan Kocán
Konchankovna................. Anita Rachvelishvili
Ovlur................................ Mikhail Vekua
Skula................................ Vladimir Ognovenko
Yeroshka.......................... Andrey Popov
Yaroslavna's nurse........... Barbara Dever
Polovtsian maiden........... Kiri Deonarine
Metropolitan Opera Chorus & Orch/Gianandrea Noseda (EBU)

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This is a revised version, memorable for the field of red poppies.