Word: tarasova
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...than the company's easy skill was the sight of a living tradition. The production followed Konstantin Stanislavsky's original staging. He first presented Dead Souls in the early 1930's, and several of the actors that were then with the company played with it in New York. Alla Tarasova who played Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, portrayed the young Anya in the same play when the Moscow Art made its 1923 tour. The entire cast seems secure in a form which they have developed, working together first as students and later as a repertory company...
Actress Katherine Cornell wrote to Soviet People's Artist Alia Tarasova. Industrial Bridgeport, Conn, sent greetings to the citizens of industrial Gorki...
...became that warrior, sounded his battle cry heroically. Next minute you could have believed her to be a whole band of Cossacks restlessly awaiting the approaching Tartars. Then she prayed, as a Siberian tribe long-vanished prayed to Kalaidos, its God. These were the stout, earthy beginnings of Nina Tarasova's first U. S. recital in five years...
Five years ago Nina Tarasova sang nothing but Russian peasant songs, songs she heard as a child on her grandmother's estate in the Crimea. Since then she has widened her scope, ferreted out more of the Old Russian songs fast dying under the new regime, explored the folk-music of France, Germany, England. All her songs tell stories. There was one last week in which a French husband glowered and raged at his simpering, deceitful wife. There was an arrangement of the Erlkonig which Goethe and the Kapellmeister Reichardt made for Goethe's cook. Tarasova sang...