2/21/2023 0 Comments Boris godunov royal opera house![]() ![]() Opera titan Bryn Terfel delivers his celebrated combination of hulk and heart, striding, stalking, and eventually staggering about the stage in an increasingly unstable manner. One exception is David Butt Philip's "sober prig" Grigory (the ‘False Dmitry’) largely uninteresting or sympathetic, dramatically and vocally. ![]() Prince Shuisky (John Graham Hall) is suitably obsequious and sly, and Boris's son Fyodor (Ben Knight), is exquisitely pure and naive. John Tomlinson provides a masterful and welcome comic interlude of beefy bass, booze and banter, and Ain Anger's chronicling monk delivers cavernous, oaky, captivating storytelling. The upper level also serves as a surreal cinema for the brutal re-enactment of the murder of young heir Dmitry, played out repeatedly in Boris' mind. The two levels of staging create a separation of majesty and mob, making the tsar's appearances before the starving, unwashed crowd all the more significant. Miriam Buether's set is enclosed by a panelled iron fortress embossed with portentous bells, where Nicky Gillibrand's slate and dishwater rags soon give way to a dazzling kaleidoscope of sumptuous fabric. ![]()
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