Boris Christoff, one of opera’s greatest basses, who sang a wide variety of important roles for the Lyric Opera of Chicago, died Monday at his home in Rome. He was 79. Death came as the result of a ...

ROME — Boris Christoff, one of opera’s greatest basses and a renowned interpreter of Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” died Monday at home from the effects of a stroke suffered six years ago, said his ...

The Czar’s torment is terrible—but is it madness or fatal grief? He lives out his last days in the hollow splendor of his Russian palace, haunted by the child king he has murdered, as frightened of ...