Royal Opera House,London
Richard Joness dramatically effective and focused production places the mental disintegration of Terfel’s Boris Godunov at the centre of the dramaA portray of a child’s spinning top adorns the front cloth of the Royal Opera’s new production of Mussorgsky’s epic. Anyone familiar with Richard Jones’s productions will know that such images tend to lift on ever-more baleful significance as the evening goes on, and this Boris Godunov is no exception. The death of the young tsarevich Dmitry while playing with his top is seen on stage before a note of the score has been heard, or the murder is played out again and again as the opera goes on,like a tape being constantly rewound in the slowly unravelling mind of Bryn Terfel’s Boris.
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Source: theguardian.com