Prince Igor is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the Ancient Russian epic The Lay of Igor's Host, which recounts ...

Borodin, one of the most emblematic parts catalog epic Russian, returns to the MET after almost a century of absence. Widely known for its Polovtsian Dances, the work is a breathtaking journey through ...

NEW YORK (AP) - You heard it at the opening ceremony in Sochi. You know it from the pop standard "Stranger in Paradise." Alexander Borodin's "Prince Igor" is the opera everyone can hum but few have ...

After Borodin died in 1887, colleagues shaped his manuscripts into a performing edition. While it often represented their ideas as much as Borodin's, it has become the de facto standard version. But ...

Borodin’s defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production is a brilliant psychological journey ...

Russian-American relations may be trending downward, but things are looking up at the Met, where the young director Dmitri Tcherniakov has radically but reverently updated Borodin’s “Prince Igor”: by ...