“Vot tsar’ vash!” Here is your Tsar, the 38-year-old Ukranian bass Alexander Tsymbalyuk—his role debut in Boris Godunov, in a new production conducted by Kent Nagano and directed by Calixto Bieito for the Bayerische Staatsoper. 

Tsymbalyuk will be heard next at the Met starting a week from tomorrow, as Montano in Otello.