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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-01-24 01:17:22
BMInt presents a not-so-short history of Shostakovich’s The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District in connection with the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s first performances of the complete opera on January 25th and 27th. Tickets HERE On January 26, 1936, Dmitri Shostakovich’s opera The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District was presented in Moscow. This was not breaking news. Lady Macbeth had enjoyed almost simultaneous premieres in 1934, at the Maly Opera Theatre in Leningrad on January 22 and then at the Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in Moscow two days later. The piece had elicited high praise from the February 1st edition of Soviet Art: Shostakovich’s new opera is indisputably one of the most significant achievements of our musical and theatrical life. It is in truth the first great, truly outstanding and masterfully constructed operatic work to have been composed in the 16 years since the October Revolution. Over the following two years, […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-04-20 14:49:57
Bolshoi chief Vladimir Urin said yesterday he had... The post Bolshoi Theatre bans Nureyev on gay grounds appeared first on Slippedisc.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2023-03-19 13:06:32
The Bolshoi Theatre has cancelled a May revival... The post Bolshoi eliminates star director appeared first on Slippedisc.
2022-04-01 13:08:08
Vladimir Putin has reportedly asked disgraced Russian conductor Valery Gergiev to consider becoming the director of a merger between Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre (of which he is already Music Director) and its counterpart in St. Petersburg, the Mariinsky Theatre. Prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Bolshoi and the Mariinsky (including their orchestra, ballet, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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