Editor’s note: This article has been translated from the original Russian by Boris Dralyuk. It was written by Maxim Osipov as he made his journey into exile from his town of Tarusa to Yerevan, the cap...
05.16.2022 Theatlantic.com and 3 sitesShare Pin 0 Shares William Shakespeare’s works have proven irresistible to many classical composers through the centuries, yet there are few operatic adaptations that have remained popular. One of the...
05.16.2022 Observer.com and 3 sitesSo, you concede that this has little to do with Ukrainians being "Nazis", "NATO aggression", or Ukrainian "neutrality". As Vlad said on the 24th of February, this is historically "Russia", and he's ju...
05.12.2022 Hotcopper.com.au and 1 sitesAdolf Hohenstein poster for the 1896 world premiere of Puccini’s La bohème. Monday night’s performance at the Metropolitan Opera felt as if the most discerning of vocal connoisseurs chose the cast fro...
05.17.2022 Newyorkclassicalreview.comChristopher Eccleston is back with three new Doctor Who stories set on the thin line between the living and the dead The Ninth Doctor is back once more, for a second series of adventures starring the legendary Christopher Eccleston. And this time his destination is… Earth? When the linking theme for this box set of three stories – ‘Back to Earth’ – was announced it was greeted with faint puzzlement. After all, the Ninth Doctor has famously spent more time on Earth than almost any other incarnati...
05.16.2022 Blogtorwho.comInternationally celebrated opera stars, the legendary Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, and American soprano Leah Crocetto, will both perform in concert for Opera Australia, rounding out a star studd...
05.12.2022 Aussietheatre.com.auHow Europeans brought dueling to Russia History May 17 2022 Georgy Manaev Russia Beyond (Public Domain, Moscow Kremlin Museums) The first Russians who witnessed European duels only laughed at them – a...
05.17.2022 Rbth.comGloom pervades Mussorgsky’s bare-bones Boris Godunov of 1869. Stripped of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s orchestral and narrative embellishments created to make the opera appealing to a wider audience, the...
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