Guy de Mey the English National Opera; Lully's "Atys" under William Christie at the Paris Opera, in Florence and New York; Berg’s "Lulu" with Teresa Stratas in a production by Ruth Berghaus, and "Boris Godunov" with José Van Dam at the Brussels Opera La Monnaie; Händel’s "Judas Maccabaeus" with the San Francisco Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra; Bach’s "St Matthew Passion" with the Concertgebouw orkest Amsterdam ; Berlioz’ "L’Enfance du Christ" at the Festival of Aix-en-Provence; Scarlatti’s "Mitridate" at the Schwetzinger Festspiele; Debussy’s "Pelléas et Mélisande" at the Nantes Opera ; Berg’s "Lulu" and Janáček’s "The Cunning Little Vixen" and "Katja Kabanova" at the Flemish
Boris Godunov broadcast on 11 and 18 September 2016. The character Boris Badenov in the cartoon The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show takes his name from a play on Godunov's name. Boris Godunov Boris Fyodorovich Godunov (; , ; c. 1551) ruled the Tsardom of Russia as "de facto" regent from c. 1585 to 1598 and then as the first non-Rurikid tsar from 1598 to 1605. After the end of his reign Russia descended into the Time of Troubles. Boris Godunov was the most noted member of an ancient, now extinct, Russian family of Tatar origin (Chet), which came from the Horde to