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Christoff, Boris Filmography

La forza del destino
1958, role: actor , character name: Padre Guardiano

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Boris Christoff - Song of the Volga Boatmen

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Updated: 21 Jan 2014

The incredible voice of Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff singing the Song of the Volga Boatmen. London, 1959.

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Boris Christoff *RARE VIDEO* - Ella giammai m'amò

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Rare footage of Boris Christoff interpreting grand aria Ella giammai m'amò

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Boris Christoff recording Boris Godunov

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Updated: 21 Jan 2014

Here is amazing footage of the great bass (and my favourite singer) Boris Christoff in the recording of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. You ask yourself where that subterranean rumble comes from!

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Boris Christoff "Dostig ya vyshey vlàsti" Boris Godunow

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Duration: 6 min 13 sec
Updated: 21 Jan 2014

Boris Christoff sings "Dostig ya vyshey vlàsti", Boris` monologue Act II from Boris Godunow by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise Issay Dobrowen, conductor 1952

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Boris Christoff - Don Carlo - Ella giammai m'amo

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Duration: 8 min 5 sec
Updated: 21 Jan 2014

Boris Christoff sings King Phillip's aria from Verdi's Don Carlo. His voice is not quite in its prime, but still has incredible and unique qualities. Vienna, 1980s. For a free English translation, please see the following: http://operainenglish.blogspot.com/2011/08/ella-giammai-mamo-don-carlo.html

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Boris Christoff - Gounod - Faust - Le veau d'or

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The great Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff sings Mephistopheles (Le veau d'or)

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Boris Christoff as Boris Godunov

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Updated: 21 Jan 2014

Singing Farewell scene

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Boris Christoff - Farewell Happiness (Proshchai Radost)

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Duration: 4 min 9 sec
Updated: 21 Jan 2014

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Boris Christoff - Aria of Attila

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Updated: 21 Jan 2014

Boris Christoff (Bulgarian: Борис Христов) (May 18, 1914, Plovdiv, Bulgaria June 28, 1993, Rome, Italy) was a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the greatest basses of the 20th century. Christoff demonstrated early his singing talent and sang as a boy at the choir of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia. In the late 1930s he graduated in law and started on a career as a magistrate. He, however, continued singing in his spare time in the Gusla Chorus in Sofia, achieving an enormous success as the chorus soloist in 1940. Thanks to a government grant, Christoff left in May 1942 for Italy where he was tutored for two years in the core Italian bass repertoire by the great baritone of an earlier generation, Riccardo Stracciari. Christoff's vocal instrument was of excellent quality with a memorably distinctive tone. While not of huge proportions, his voice had no trouble making an impact in big auditoria such as that of the Met. Owing to his matchless stage presence and strong dramatic temperament, he emerged as a worthy heir to the grand tradition of Slavonic basses as exemplified by Fyodor Stravinsky, Lev Sibiriakov, Vladimir Kastorsky, Feodor Chaliapin, Alexander Kipnis and Mark Reizen, among others. He sang mostly in Verdi and the Russian repertoire, although he also proved to be a refined performer of vocal chamber music. Among his most famous roles were those of Tsar Boris (Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov), Philip II (Verdi - Don Carlo), Mephistopheles (Gounod - Faust and Boito - Mefistofele), Ivan Susanin (Glinka - A Life for the Tsar), Zaccaria (Verdi - Nabucco), Tsar Ivan (Rimsky-Korsakov - Ivan the Terrible), Dosifei (Mussorgsky - Khovanshchina), Gomez da Silva (Verdi - Ernani), Fiesco (Verdi - Simon Boccanegra), Attila (Verdi - Attila), Padre Guardiano (Verdi - La forza del destino), Galitzky and Kontchak (Borodin - Prince Igor) and others. Boris Christoff set modern-day standards in most roles that he sang in the opera house. He also had an enormous discography - studio recordings of eight operas (Don Carlo and Boris Godunov twice each) and numerous live recordings (radio or stage performances). He was much admired as song singer and he recorded more than 200 Russian songs by Mussorgsky (he was the first to record all his 63 songs), Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glinka, Borodin, Cui, Balakirev as well as traditional songs. Most of these songs are with piano accompaniment and are among the best of all his recordings. While he was a grand performer on stage, Christoff had difficult off-stage relations with fellow singers and producers, which sometimes grew into public scandals. In 1955 he fell out with Maria Callas during the performances of Medea at the Rome Opera and in 1961 his contract with La Scala was terminated after an open conflict with fellow Bulgarian Nicolai Ghiaurov whom Christoff blamed for collaborating with the Bulgarian communist regime. He was the brother-in-law of the Italian baritone Tito Gobbi.

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Boris Christoff O Tu Palermo

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Updated: 21 Jan 2014

Vespri Siciliani - 1955 Boris Christoff Anita Cerquetti Mario Ortica Carlo Tagliabue Dir. Mario Rossi

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La Calunnia Boris Christoff

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La Calunnia, Boris Christoff, basso. Lugano recital, 1976.

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Boris Christoff - Nightingale

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Duration: 3 min 1 sec
Updated: 21 Jan 2014

Aliabiev, Solovei Russian song

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Mortal, diletto ai numi Boris Christoff Jussi Björling - Aida Verdi

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Updated: 21 Jan 2014

Mortal, diletto ai numi - Nume custode e vindice Aida Verdi Boris Christoff - Ramfis High Priest of Egypt Jussi Björling - Radames Captain of the Egyptian Guard Hair raising invocation to the gods, exhorting them to rain blood on their enemies. Christoff and Björling are magnificent. Jonel Perlea - conductor

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Boris Christoff "Herr, lehre doch mich" Ein Deutsches Requiem

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Duration: 10 min 19 sec
Updated: 21 Jan 2014

Boris Christoff sings "Herr, lehre doch mich", "Fa mi sapere, o Signore, la mia fine" from Ein Deutsches Requiem, op 45 by Johannes Brahms, sung in Italian Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma della RAI Nino Antonellini, chorus master Bruno Walter, conductor 16.IV.1952

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Boris Christoff - Interview, and final Death of Boris

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Duration: 41:48
Updated: 25 Jun 2013

Boris Christoff interview (Intervista). And Boris Godunov, Death of Boris, Boris Godunov, Mussorgski - recording 1976. Conductor: Bruno Amaducci. Orchestra d...

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Boris Christoff *RARE VIDEO* - Ella giammai m'amò

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Duration: 10:36
Updated: 19 Aug 2013

Rare footage of Boris Christoff interpreting grand aria Ella giammai m'amò.

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Boris Christoff Zhertva vechernyaya (chant Orthodoxe)

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Duration: 5:14
Updated: 12 Aug 2013

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Boris Christoff - Interview & Boris Godounov

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Duration: 3:40
Updated: 06 Jan 2013

Sur la scène du théâtre des Champs Elysées, interview du chanteur d'opéra Boris CHRISTOFF qui s'apprête à retrouver le public parisien dans le rôle de Boris ...

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Boris Christoff - Song of the Volga Boatmen

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Duration: 3:42
Updated: 19 Aug 2013

The incredible voice of Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff singing the Song of the Volga Boatmen. London, 1959.

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1_Boris Christoff - What made me sing?

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Duration: 9:18
Updated: 04 Feb 2013

Bulgarian Documentary Lyudmil Trifonov, scenario and directing.

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Boris Christoff - Verdi - La forza del destino

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Duration: 3:21
Updated: 13 Aug 2013

The greatest opera performances. Thank you God!

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Boris Christoff - Don Carlo - Ella giammai m'amo

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Duration: 8:05
Updated: 09 Aug 2013

Boris Christoff sings King Phillip's aria from Verdi's Don Carlo. His voice is not quite in its prime, but still has incredible and unique qualities. Vienna,...

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La Calunnia Boris Christoff

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Updated: 17 Aug 2013

La Calunnia, Boris Christoff, basso. Lugano recital, 1976.

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Boris Christoff & Raffaele Arié "Il Grande Inquisitor" Don Carlos 1960

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Updated: 22 Jun 2013

Boris Christoff and Raffaele Arié sing "Il Grande Inquisitor" from Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi Wiener Philharmoniker Nello Santi, conductor Salzburg Festiva...

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Volga Boatmen - Boris Christoff - Song of the Volga Boatmen

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Updated: 01 Jun 2012

Russian folk Song.

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Boris Christoff - Gounod - Faust - Le veau d'or

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Updated: 16 Aug 2013

The great Bulgarian bass Boris Christoff sings Mephistopheles (Le veau d'or)

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Boris Christoff - Aria of Attila

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Updated: 18 Aug 2013

Boris Christoff (Bulgarian: Борис Христов) (May 18, 1914, Plovdiv, Bulgaria June 28, 1993, Rome, Italy) was a Bulgarian opera singer, one of the greatest bas...

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Boris Christoff - Nightingale

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Duration: 3:01
Updated: 11 Aug 2013

Aliabiev, Solovei Russian song.

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Boris Christoff as Boris Godunov

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Duration: 6:20
Updated: 13 Aug 2013

Singing Farewell scene.

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BORIS CHRISTOFF: Pictures at the threshold of THE GREATNESS

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Updated: 17 Apr 2013

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Boris Christoff - Song of the Varangian Guest

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Duration: 3:44
Updated: 19 Aug 2013

Песня Варяжского гостя, САДКО alias Song of the Viking Guest, Sadko Nikolai Rimski-Korsakov, music and lyrics Philharmonia Orchestra Issay Dobrowen, conducto...

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Boris Christoff - Charished places

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Updated: 28 Jun 2013

La Sonnambula Il mulino!.. Vi ravviso, o luoghi ameni 1955 There are some immages from the Christoff's native town Plovdiv.

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Boris Christoff recording Boris Godunov

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Duration: 3:53
Updated: 05 Aug 2013

Here is amazing footage of the great bass (and my favourite singer) Boris Christoff in the recording of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov. You ask yourself where th...

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Boris Christoff - I vespri Siciliani - Erich Kleiber.wmv

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Updated: 09 Aug 2013

Boris Christoff sings Verdi - O partia, o cara partia (I Vespri Siciliani). Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, conductor ERICH KLEIBER - live 1951.

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Boris Christoff - Ella giammai m'amò at ROH - 1977

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Updated: 15 Jul 2013

Royal Opera House Gala 30 May 1977 Boris Christoff sings Ella giammai m'amò before the Royal Family on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of Her Majesty Quee...

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Boris Christoff "Dostig ya vyshey vlàsti" Boris Godunow

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Updated: 04 Aug 2013

Boris Christoff sings "Dostig ya vyshey vlàsti", Boris` monologue Act II from Boris Godunow by Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881) Orchestre National de la Radiodi...

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Boris Christoff - Sleep, my angel

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Duration: 4:49
Updated: 11 Aug 2013

Glinka, Russian song Alexandre Labinsky, piano.

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21 Jan 2014

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21 Jan 2014

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That’s Vintage Verdi, That ’61 ‘Otello’

The New York Times

26 Dec 2013

SOME days are left in 2013, so it is still officially the bicentennial of Verdi’s birth, which means it is not too late for the classical music critics of The New York Times to share their choices of favorite Verdi recordings ... Enlarge This Image. AndreaTamoni/Associated Press ... Ms ... ‘AIDA’ Zinka Milanov, Fedora Barbieri, Jussi Bjoerling, Boris Christoff, Leonard Warren; Jonel Perlea, conductor; Rome Opera Chorus and Orchestra (RCA Victor)....(size: 7.8Kb)

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My favourite Verdi moment

The Guardian

09 Oct 2013

To celebrate the great composer's bicentenary today, the Guardian's music writers pick their favourite Verdi moment from the vast treasure trove on YouTube. Tell us what yours are in the comments below. Martin Kettle. Maria Callas as Violetta, La Traviata ... As such it is quite simply precious beyond price ... it's unbearable! It's a superb vehicle for a really dark, cavernous bass – Boris Christoff is one of the greatest.Tom Service ... ....(size: 5.2Kb)

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Regina Resnik obituary

The Guardian

12 Aug 2013

Leading light of the New York Met opera house who sang as a soprano and a mezzo. Regina Resnik with Boris Christoff during rehearsals of Boris Godunov at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. Photograph ... She later appeared at Covent Garden as a seductive Marina in Boris Godunov, a ripely amusing Mistress Quickly in Falstaff and an appropriately decadent Klytemnestra, a role she sang to all the great Elektras of the day ... ....(size: 4.9Kb)

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Bruno Bartoletti, longtime Lyric Opera conductor, dies in Florence

Chicago Sun-Times

09 Jun 2013

... tenors Carlo Bergonzi, Jussi Björling, Mario Del Monaco, Giuseppe di Stefano, Placido Domingo, Alfredo Kraus, Luciano Pavarotti, Leopold Simoneau, Richard Tucker and Jon Vickers; baritones Ettore Bastianini, Renato Bruson, Piero Cappuccilli, Tito Gobbi and Sherrill Milnes; and basses Boris Christoff, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Jerome Hines and Samuel Ramey....(size: 9.3Kb)

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My Favorite Records: Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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15 May 2012

The first contributions were by Björk, Mark Morris, and Alec Baldwin. I'm honored to present now a list from Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has served on the Supreme Court of the United States since 1993 ... Her choices appear in no particular order ... ***. Verdi, "Aida"; Zinka Milanov, Jussi Björling, Leonard Warren, Fedora Barbieri, Boris Christoff, Jonel Perlea conducting the Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus (RCA) ... Justice Ginsburg comments ... ....(size: 3.8Kb)

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Ferruccio Furlanetto, the ace of basses, sings role ‘dearest to my heart’ at Lyric

Chicago Sun-Times

14 Nov 2011

In 1999, he did his first “Boris,” following in the wake of great basses such as Feodor Chaliapin, Boris Christoff and Nicolai Ghiaurov ... Johnson noted, “From the time of Chaliapin, the doomed Boris Godunov has been a showcase for the greatest basses of the past century, three of whom — Boris Christoff, Nicolai Ghiaurov and Samel Ramey — have tackled the role in Chicago....(size: 7.1Kb)

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Julian Rodescu, singer, mentor

Philadelphia Daily News

06 Oct 2011

"Theatrically, he inspired simultaneous fascination and repulsion while singing with the kind of bass-note buzz that made you wonder why he's not starring in Boris Godunov," wrote an Inquirer critic in 2007 of his villainous Sparafucile in Rigoletto with the Opera Company of Philadelphia ... "Today we have so many bassi and many of them lack this depth of sound in the way we had one time with Boris Christoff and Enzio Pinza ... Oct. 10 ... ....(size: 5.1Kb)

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Christoff, Boris Filmography

Born: 1914-05-18

Died: 1993-06-28

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Make changes yourself !

Boris Christoff - Song of the Volga Boatmen

Boris Christoff RARE VIDEO - Ella giammai m'amò

Boris Christoff recording Boris Godunov

Boris Christoff "Dostig ya vyshey vlàsti" Boris Godunow

Boris Christoff - Don Carlo - Ella giammai m'amo

Boris Christoff - Gounod - Faust - Le veau d'or

Boris Christoff as Boris Godunov

Boris Christoff - Farewell Happiness (Proshchai Radost)

Boris Christoff - Aria of Attila

Boris Christoff O Tu Palermo

La Calunnia Boris Christoff

Boris Christoff - Nightingale

Mortal, diletto ai numi Boris Christoff Jussi Björling - Aida Verdi

Boris Christoff "Herr, lehre doch mich" Ein Deutsches Requiem

Boris Christoff - Interview, and final Death of Boris

Boris Christoff RARE VIDEO - Ella giammai m'amò

Boris Christoff Zhertva vechernyaya (chant Orthodoxe)

Boris Christoff - Interview & Boris Godounov

Boris Christoff - Song of the Volga Boatmen

1_Boris Christoff - What made me sing?

Boris Christoff - Verdi - La forza del destino

Boris Christoff - Don Carlo - Ella giammai m'amo

La Calunnia Boris Christoff

Boris Christoff & Raffaele Arié "Il Grande Inquisitor" Don Carlos 1960

Volga Boatmen - Boris Christoff - Song of the Volga Boatmen

Boris Christoff - Gounod - Faust - Le veau d'or

Boris Christoff - Aria of Attila

Boris Christoff - Nightingale

Boris Christoff as Boris Godunov

BORIS CHRISTOFF: Pictures at the threshold of THE GREATNESS

Boris Christoff - Song of the Varangian Guest

Boris Christoff - Charished places