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...Bolshoi Ballet is well into its fourth U.S. tour in 16 years. The Moiseyev folk dancers are regular visitors to America. Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov, Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich are now residents in the West. What more could Russia possibly offer American audiences? The Bolshoi Opera, for one. Though in recent years the Bolshoi has visited Osaka, Tokyo, Montreal, Paris and Milan, it was not until last week at New York's Metropolitan Opera that the company set foot, props and double bass pins on U.S. soil. Bolshoi means big, and the opera company is nothing if not bolshoi...
Shouts and Applause. When the opening night curtain went up on Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, it all seemed worth the effort. Boris is the pinnacle of Russian opera, and those who filled the Met last week seemed to have no doubt that the Bolshoi's interpretation was something of a peak, too. The audience let loose repeated barrages of bravos, shouts and applause. Even Andy Warhol was seen to touch palm to palm. The Bolshoi stars were surprised and somewhat unnerved. "They didn't know who to send out first for curtain calls," said Gilbert Hemsley...
...Minor (Moscow Radio Symphony; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor; Melodi-ya/Angel, $6.98). Who needs another recording of the Tchaikovsky Fifth? Listen and discover how exciting this music can be without the excessive retards and breakneck tempos that often pass for authentic Russian interpretation. Rozhdestvensky, a principal conductor of the Bolshoi Opera, plays the work straight. Yet in the way he builds his performance from the inside out, making sure that the smallest phrases are in place, he gives the impression of blissful discovery. Part of the conductor's complete cycle of the Tchaikovsky symphonies, this LP is highly recommended, even...
...capital of the world. This spring Manhattan will provide the backdrop for 16 world premieres at New York City Ballet's Ravel Festival. Galas will be presented by Martha Graham, New York City Ballet and, in the summer, American Ballet Theater. Two foreign companies - the U.S.S.R.'s Bolshoi and Germany's Stuttgart Ballet - will perform at the Metropolitan Opera House. One wonders, in fact, if Diaghilev's Paris or Petipa's St. Petersburg ever had it so good...
...BOLSHOI BALLET. The key to the enduring Bolshoi mystique is its magnitude: the colossal technical prowess of its dancers, their grandeur of emotion, the elaborate theatrical productions. Alas, on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera the gallant dancers often sag beneath the weighty spectacle of the frantic choreography of Director Yuri Grigorovich. Yet Giselle, the company's corner stone, abounds in fresh lyrical dancing and finely drawn characterizations. Radiant young Ludmila Semenyaka and Vyacheslav Gordeyev, a powerful classical dancer, should win fans during the Bolshoi's nine-city national tour...