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This blood-and-thunder performance recorded in Moscow in 1974 will be of interest mainly to admirers of the three main singers, here heard at their absolute
This strange release commemorates Mario Del Monaco’s debut in Moscow (June 29, 1959); the opera is Pagliacci, and while the tenor sings in Italian, the
In her autobiography Galina Vishnevskaya tells the story of Bolshoi
If I had to pick one series of Prokofiev ballets,
This is not the sort of music you’d choose for
The last new, home-grown production of Eugene Onegin in Moscow–the opera’s original home–was in 1944 and has been in use since then. It was rife
The Bolshoi Theater Orchestra’s strong Tchaikovsky tradition dates back to the 19th century, thus you’d expect its playing of his ballets to project a certain
This Bolshoi Ballet Sleeping Beauty lives up to the company’s storied reputation. The production is imaginative and colorful, while the dancing is fabulous. Nina Semizorova
This disc, worthy yet variable in quality, is a compilation of Evgeny Svetlanov recordings from 1963 to 1990. The sets of orchestral operatic excerpts begin
Having attended a remarkable concert performance of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin conducted by Alexander Vedernikov (in Montreal in September, 2003), I hoped to be able to
