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Tag Archives: Svetlana Aksenova
Listen with Mother: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Tsar Saltan as autism parable at La Monnaie
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan La Monnaie, Brussels, 16th June 2019 Look at it from the point of view of the child. The father he’s never met sentences him and his mother to be nailed into a barrel and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Altinoglu, Alexander Vassiliev, Ante Jerkunica, Bernarda Bobro, Bogdan Volkov, Carole Wilson, Dmitri Tcherniakov, Elena Zaitseva, Gleb Filshtinsky, La Monnaie, La Monnaie Chorus, Nicky Spence, Olga Kulchynska, Orchestre symphonique de la Monnaie, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stine Marie Fischer, Svetlana Aksenova, The Tale of Tsar Saltan
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Caged bird: Tchaikovsky stars in Herheim’s remarkable Pique Dame at Dutch National Opera
Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades ***** Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, 9th June 2016 “Wept terribly when Hermann gave up the ghost,” wrote Tchaikovsky in his diary. What was it that drove the composer to identify so closely with such an … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexey Markov, Amsterdam, Andrei Popov, Anna Goryachova, Dutch National Opera, Larissa Diadkova, Mariss Jansons, Misha Didyk, Olga Savova, Philipp Fürhofer, Pique Dame, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Stefan Herheim, Svetlana Aksenova, Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades, Vladimir Stoyanov
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