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http://www.mvdaily.com/
'Ilya Repin's astounding portrait of Musorgsky as debauched genius may
be reason enough for his not completing this terrifying work, so that
Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich, and now Voronkov with a dying-fall
finale have attempted to repair the omission. As in Boris Godunov,
Musorgsky's aim was to stage a pregnant slice of Russian history, that
period when the youthful Tsar Peter was about to throw off the
shackles imposed on him by his half-sister, the regent Sophia, in
disgust at the military incompetence of her lover, Prince Golitsyn.
Not only had he no truck with the Old Believers of the opera, but he
also totally emasculated the patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox
Church.'
- Robert Anderson, writing in today's Music & Vision magazine. Read
his full review online via the link above, and watch eight video
extracts from the DVD. |
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