Situated some 35 miles to the west of the city of Tver and near the mid-point of the highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg, Torzhok is among the oldest settlements in central Russia. The earliest ...
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Given the incredible pressure Dmitri Shostakovich endured as a twice-censured composer under the repressive Soviet regime of Josef Stalin, it's amazing he could write a note. Yet his prodigious output ...
You’ll never see any of these guys on the streets in Russia anymore – maybe, only in a historical reenactment or on a theater stage. In the Russian Imperial army, a ‘batman’ (also an orderly or ...
National Theatre fulfils its promise to viewers and opens up the New Stage to operas as well and presents the premiere of two operas by Dmitri Shostakovich: Orango and Anti-Formalist Rayok.
Considering that Dmitri Shostakovich passed away in 1975, it is unusual for a work of his to be presented these days as a world premiere. The National Theater, though, has just brought his unfinished ...
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1 of 9 — The Houston Symphony and conductor Hans Graf presented an all-Shostakovich evening for their evening at the Spring for Music festival at Carnegie Hal on May 7, 2012. They played two rarely ...
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