Word: katinka
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cyrillic alphabet which seven-tenths of them have not yet mastered. He introduced tobacco and knouted any courtier who did not take to a pipe. Finding the women of Russia cooped Asiatically in harems, Peter dragged them out with a ukase. Fancying a lowly laundress whom soldiers called Katinka, he made her the Tsarina Catherine I. He decreed a new calendar. With knowledge won by toiling incognito as a shipwright in Holland he built Russia's first effective navy. On land he defeated Charles XII of Sweden, most potent warrior of the age, at blood-drenched Pultava. But Peter...
...each number was introduced by the droll, Cheshire-cat-faced Nikita Balieff, an ticipant audiences rocked with a foretaste of merriment which always followed. The music of the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers" penetrated every stratum of U. S. society. Not to have seen the "Wooden Soldiers" or "Katinka" or later "Katerina" was the height of rusticity or indifference...
...straight vaudeville in Russian and French, and here and there cracked English. It was new. Neither the famed wooden soldiers nor the well remembered Katinka played their parts. A concentration of Verdi's La Traviata, burlesqued; a pantomime in the Sultan's harem; the lovely figure of the danseuse were most volubly received. As always it was fresh, delicate; strange to slangy Manhattan. Four weeks it will linger in the city and then start in Washington a tour of population centres reaching to California...
...since 1919. Total attendance was over a half million. The repertory consisted of one opera (Tales of Hoffman) often included in the New York Metropolitan repertory and the following light operas: Robin Hood, Princess Pat, Sari, Song of the Flame, Red Mill, Rose Marie, The Mikado, The Dollar Princess, Katinka...
...Atlanta the repertoire consists exclusively of light opera: The Chocolate Soldier, The Pirates of Penzance, Katinka...