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...this has happened on the screen. Now Russell has turned to the stage for the first time-directing, of all unlikely things, Igor Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress at the 45th Maggio Musicale festival in Florence. Stravinsky, whose centenary is being celebrated this year, conducted the premiere of The Rake in Venice in 1951, and the work has acquired the status of a classic among the composer's admirers. But Russell, ever the iconoclast, has turned it upside down. The jejune quality of Stravinsky's cool, mock-Mozartian music is engulfed in a rush...
...Igor Reider, graduate student of Mathematics, yesterday said "anti-semitism was felt more acutely" after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war when "Jewrs realized their identities more than before...
Korchnoi, a burly, voluble Russian defector, arrived from a Swiss health retreat accompanied by an entourage Muhammad Ali would envy. Spokesman Emanuel Sztein sported a Solidarity button and passed out postcards demanding that Korchnoi's son Igor, 22, be released from a two-year prison sentence for draft evasion and that Korchnoi's wife Bella be allowed to join him. Korchnoi's party also included an American yoga instructor, who sat in the first row at the opening game last week wearing an orange sari...
...Igor Perekrestov...
...adventurous Santa Fe Opera is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a season that includes such rarities as Paul Hindemith's News of the Day, Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Richard Strauss's Daphne. But, a few individual performances aside, it has been a dry operatic summer in the Southwest...