Word: bolshoi
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...STRAINS of a professional polka band, Chicopee proclaims itself the Kielbasa Capital of the World, while across town South Boston mothers wear buttons calling Southie "The Irish Riviera." Groups bound by common heritage are attracting more and more attention from the media: Londoners picket the Bolshoi to show their sympathy for Russian Jews, Brando passes up his Oscar for the sake of Native Americans, and the Basques help Franco destroy himself. Filmmakers have taken a renewed interest in the ethnic backgrounds of their protagonists, from Jimmy Cliff to the Corleones, and even prime time TV, exploiting the trend...
EUGENE ONEGIN. Drawn from Pushkin by the composer and his librettist friend Konstantin Shilovsky, this is an exquisitely melancholy romance about a girl (Tatiana) who grows up and a cad (Onegin) who does not. The Bolshoi production dates from 1944, and the company treats it with veneration...
What Onegin and Pique Dame have in common with everything else done by the Bolshoi is a strong sense of es prit, unity and permanence. In the best Stanislavsky tradition, this is a troupe that performs as a dedicated ensemble...
That can be heard in the sheer might of sound that comes from the orchestra and chorus, which can mean only one thing: each member is performing as though his life depends on it. It can be found in the fact that the Bolshoi stars regularly perform at the Bolshoi, rarely on the international jet circuit...
...lending strength to a performance by taking secondary roles now and then, as when Mazurok sings the small role of the sec retary of the Duma in Boris. During a rehearsal in New York, one singer be gan to chatter on stage. The others shooshed her. Stars at the Bolshoi...