Universally lauded as one of the world’s finest conductors, Valery Gergiev conducts the orchestra, chorus and ballet of Mariinsky Theatre in a sumptuous production of Alexander Borodin’s grand opera, Prince Igor. With a majestic score, this spectacular opera interprets one of the greatest Russian epic tales of all time: Prince Igor of Seversk’s courageous, but ill-fated military campaign against a marauding tribe of Polovtsians in twelfth-century Russia. Authentically staged, this historical drama of a defeated prince held captive while his princedom is in peril, relates a powerful, archetypal story of love across enemy lines and the eventual triumph of ideals over opportunism.
