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.”
Ildar Abdrazakov
as Prince Igor
Mikhail Petrenko
as Prince Galitsky
Sergey Semishkur
as Vladimir Igorevich
Vladimir Ognovenko
as Skula
Andrey Popov
as Yeroshka
Oksana Dyka
as Yaroslavna
Kiri Deonarine
as Polovtsian Maiden
Anita Rachvelishvili
as Konchakovna
Mikhail Vekua
as Ovlur
Štefan Kocán
as Khan Konchak
Barbara Dever
as Yaroslavna's Nurse
Eric Owens
as Self - Host
