Word: bolshoi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...might look like Grand Concert. Although the actors are fully clothed and there is hardly any comedy, the spectacle includes grand opera, ballet, folk dancing, and scenes of joyous living on the kolkhoz farm. From several shots of the countryside, laden with produce, the camera takes you inside the Bolshoi Theatre; in Russian, bolshoi means great, but in this instance it might be translated huge. At least a hundred men roam about the stage in Prince Igor and a flock of birds scurries across the dawn at the appropriate moment...
Besides massive production and opulent costuming, the Bolshoi Theatre offers several fine singers, none of whose names are well-known. In Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet ballets, the corps, though great in number, dances with grace and precision. The six or seven minutes of Ulanova are outstandingly beautiful. But on the whole, the cameraman had difficultly in cropping action and maintaining dramatic pitch through the transitions. Especially disturbing are the frequent switches to the audience, who talk with mock enthusiasm about their kolkhoz anniversary. In spite of obvious propaganda, however, creative portrayals of the romantic, tsarist...
...failing to detect the "plot" in time. Many Western observers leaped to the conclusion that the criticism hinted at trouble for Politburocrat Lavrenty Beria, longtime boss of the secret police system; but this is premature. On the very night the "plot" was disclosed, Stalin appeared at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater. With him, in we-hang-to-gether fashion, were Malenkov, Molotov, Voroshilov, Khrushchev-and Beria...
Tchaikovsky: Pique Dame (soloists, chorus and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theater, conducted by S. A. Samosud; Colosseum, 8 sides LP). A complete recording of this melodious opera, reissued, boasts the manufacturer, from pirated Russian originals (TIME, Sept. 1). A good strong performance, with outstanding voices in virtually every role. Despite some shattering of tone in the choral passages, the recording is fairly good...
...years to be confused with glamorous Prima Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya, 34, one of the two ranking stars of the unrivaled ballet company of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater...