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...Physical training!" snorted one elderly Russian balletomane, stomping out of Moscow's cavernous Bolshoi Theater. "Pantomime!" jeered another. Inside, the spectators traded insults for a full 15 minutes after the final curtain. Source of their excitement: a new ballet entitled Spartacus, marking the first major departure from the classic choreographic style in which Russian ballet has been frozen on pointe for 30 years...
...Singers Roberta Peters and Blanche The-bom and Conductor Leopold Stokowski, the Philadelphia Orchestra for Soviet Pianist Emil Gilels and Violinist Leonid Kogan (who are in the U.S. now), plus the Bolshoi Theater Ballet and other stellar attractions...
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater; Westminster, 3 LPs). Pushkin's sentimental tale of a St. Petersburg blade and his Unbeloved, given a skilled and rousing reading by Russia's leading opera group. The score displays Tchaikovsky at the top of his meltingly melancholy form. Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya is particularly fine as the lofty-souled heroine whose real-life prototype became Tchaikovsky's wife in a marriage that almost drove him to suicide...
...carpers pointed out that the Bolshoi style had become frozen at a pre-revolutionary epoch. Sadler's Wells School...
...most reactionary ballet it is possible to imagine. Its virtues and its faults are those of half a century ago." But the applauding crowd. Prime Minister Anthony Eden among them, could not clap enough. In return the audience got a traditional Russian reaction: the entire cast and Bolshoi officials stood on the stage and applauded back...