Word: gudunov
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...superb tales as The Queen of Spades and The Captain's Daughter, Pushkin fashioned a new native style-spare, exact, free of rhetorical flourish-which set the tone for the epic prose era that was to follow, from Gogol to Chekhov. In rich, full-blooded dramas like Boris Gudunov, he helped to free the Russian stage from its prim, Racine-engendered formalities. Poems like Ruslan and Liudmila, Memory and The Bronze Horseman grandly exploded the prevailing notion of the day that poetry should be either didactic or sentimental. "Good lord," said Pushkin impatiently, "the aim of poetry is poetry...
...last appeal for help. Curious to know its radio fans' taste in opera, the Met asked 123,000 of them to pick their favorite operas. The choices: 1) A'ida, 2) Carmen, 3) La Traviata. Among operas less frequently heard, listeners picked Hansel and Gretel, Boris Gudunov, and Der Rosenkavalier. (The Met promised to broadcast all six next year.) Notably unchosen: Wagner...
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