RENÉE PAPE

A Tsar Is Born: Rene Pape Is About to Have His Moment in Boris Godunov
The New York Observer Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:40 PM PDT
Rene Pape dropped his orb. He was onstage at the MetropolitanOpera last week, richly costumed and rehearsing Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov , an early scene in which the title character, anxious and ill at ease, prepares to become tsar. Mr. Pape, holding the scepter and orb, delivered his short monologue to the crowd with a haunted look on his face. Then, as he turned to enter the cathedral ...