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Furthermore, the singers are encouraged to wear makeup so similar that it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between them, especially between the Czarina's spy, the antagonists, and Prince Golitzin...
Because we don't quite know on sight who is who, we soon begin to lose the threads of the sloppily woven plot. Briefly stated, the opera tells of the rivalry between the princes Khovansky and Golitzin and their attempt to usurp the throne...
...introduction to the opera's music, be forewarned that the singers, all from the Bolshoi Opera Company, while generally competent, lack greatness. The tenors, Golitzin and Andrei, are sung by men with light voices that are just barely under control. Khovansky and Dossifey are handled by baritones of first rank and musical sensitivity who make the most of the eloquent passages that occasionally come their...
...confused with the late great Russian spectroscppist and seismographer Prince Boris Borisovitch Golitzin...
Prince Alexandre Dimitri Golitzin,* onetime Court Master of Ceremonies to Tsar Nicholas II, was named in despatches as chief backer of the Woman Racing Syndicate. The track was equipped, in time for the first race last week, with automatic pari-mutuel betting machines, similar to those used on horse and dog racetracks throughout Europe...
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