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...musical comedy. She sang at the Leningrad Operetta Theater during the war, sandwiching performances between stints of rubble clearing in the streets. In 1952 she graduated to the Bolshoi Opera, is now preparing the leading role in Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Married to famed Russian Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Soprano Vishnevskaya has two daughters, lives comfortably in a six-room Moscow apartment, draws a top Soviet artist's salary of $1,500 a month...
Beethoven: Trio No. 7-"The Archduke" (Emil Gilels, piano; Leonid Kogan, violin; Mstislav Rostropovich, cello; Monitor). Three virtuosos demonstrate that the Red Russians can do as well as Whites. The players melt their individual talents into a superlative ensemble performance which makes this latest version of an exquisite trio close to irresistible...
...tense. Behind the scenes, 38 nervous young men and women from a score of countries polished their bulky cellos, flexed their hands, and spat on calloused fingers. In the balcony sat 14 distinguished cellists, including France's Pierre Fournier, Britain's Sir John Barbirolli, Russia's Mstislav Rostropovich. It was the Concours International Pablo Casals 1957, organized to honor the great cellist, and it proved to be a surprisingly thrilling East-West match...
...chief trouble was the setting-admittedly difficult inasmuch as Wozzeck has 15 swiftly changing scenes. Designer Mstislav Dubojinksy's stage was a stylistic hash laid out on two levels, with more exits, real and imaginary, than the auditorium of City Center itself. Among other things, the lighting was not subtle enough to disguise the unlikely fact that the pond in which Wozzeck drowns is atop both the room where his girl Marie lives and the room where the sadistic Doctor experimented...
...paintings were by a stage designer named Mstislav Dobujinsky. Dobujinsky, a dapper, silver-haired Lithuanian, has done ballet sets from Moscow to Manhattan-usually, as in his sets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, filled with backdrops of toppling, cubistic cities. Last summer Dobujinsky found peace from the pasteboard, fast-whirling world of the theater in Newport's piles. "They are part of American history," he said, "I am very proud that I could paint them...