Word: ismailova
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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...generally assumed that the changes he was making would be pitifully political. But on both sides of the Iron Curtain, all doubts have been dispelled. Last January the new opera got an enthusiastic reception in Moscow. Last week, with the new title of Katerina Ismailova, it had its Western debut at London's Covent Garden. To the delight of an audience that would not stop cheering until the shy Shostakovich had come onstage to accept a laurel wreath, every change turned out to be strictly the work of a matured and masterly composer...