MUSIC San Diego Opera opens its 25th season with Mussorgsky's "Boris Godunov," featuring five leading singers and a conductor from the Soviet Union.
He has sung "Boris Godunov" in Vienna, Paris and Philadelphia.
A three-day standoff between the U.S. and the Soviet Union ended as American officials allowed ballerina Lyudmila Vlasova to leave New York aboard an Aeroflot jetliner after the defection of her husband, Alexander Godunov.