Bringing “Prince Igor” Back to the Metropolitan Opera

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 12, 2014

Russian composer Alexander Borodin’s unfinished opera Prince Igor has been hailed as a masterpiece, but it hasn’t been performed at the Metropolitan Opera since 1917. Ildar Abdrazakov talks about playing the 12th-century ruler in the all-new production and Anita Rachvelishvili plays the Polovtsian princess Konchakovna. 

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