A lecture on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin’s interpretation of Russia’s “Time of Troubles” (late 16th-early 17th centuries) in his play Boris Godunov, and the play’s later artistic transformations, with a focus on the work as a meditation on the morality of art. Come learn about Pushkin’s play and Mussorgsky’s opera prior to the Live from the Met HD broadcast.
Speaker: Alyssa Gillespie, Associate Professor of Russian, University of Notre Dame
Sponsored by the Program in Russian and East European Studies