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From around the world: New York City.(North America)(Kirov Opera Company)(Opera Review)
The Kirov's three-week, six-work visit to New York last July, in connection with St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary, brought enthusiastic though hardly overflow crowds to the Met. So many Russian immigrants attended that, following a few disrupted evenings, patrons were warned in two languages to turn off cell phones. The offerings were five staged operas (Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina, Prnkofiev's Semyon Kotko, Verdi's Macbeth, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Rimsky-Korsakov's The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh) and a concert reading of one other (Rubinstein's The Demon). In Russian fare, at least, the company sounded in fine shape: musical rewards were rich, ...
- New York City.(Khovanschchina)(Semyon Kotko)(The Demon)(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Crory, Neil September 22, 2003 700+ words
...stock and barrel--to New York City for a three-week residency...rarities as Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko and Rimsky-Korsakov's...North American premiere of Semyon Kotko. Written "after the composer...period of self imposed exile, Semyon Kotko is Prokofiev's first Soviet...
- Semyon Kotko
- Reference information from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera JOHN WARRACK and EWAN WEST January 1, 1996 700+ words
Semyon Kotko. Opera in 5 acts by Prokofiev; text by Valentin Katayev and composer...story. Prem. Moscow, Stanislavsky T, 23 June 1940. Ukraine, 1918. Semyon Kotko (ten) returns to the Ukraine after the First World War. He wishes...
- The Gambler.
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Smith, Patrick J. May 1, 2001 700+ words
...Metropolitan Opera, New York. Opera is widely considered...frequently encountered. (New York will hear two productions...while his patriotic opera Semyon Kotko was considered, outside...there is a rumor that Semyon Kotko will be included in the...
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- Magazine article from: Czech Music Balek, Jindrich October 1, 2005 700+ words
...Kosler's first Dalibor. Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko, Eugene Onegin, Meistersinger, another...Mitropoulos Conducting Competition in New York in 1963. He shared first place with...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] After the competition the New York Times critic wrote that he "is a kind...
- Russia's Kirov Opera assays Rimsky's 'Kite.
- News wire article from: United Press International July 25, 2003 700+ words
NEW YORK, Jul 25, 2003 (United Press International via COMTEX) Russia's Kirov...Lincoln Center's summer festival. The others are Sergei Prokofiev's "Semyon Kotko," also an American premiere, Modest Mussorgsky's "Khovanshchina...
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- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Hill, Ian June 11, 1999 700+ words
...include a concert version of Prokofiev's Soviet Realist opera Semyon Kotko in the famous St Petersburg music festival. Though written...Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution to a New York audience. Never having been performed during Prokofiev...
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- New York Life Marks Its 160th Anniversary; New York Life Foundation Grants...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 11, 2005 700+ words
NEW YORK -- Today New York Life Insurance Company, one of New York City's most respected and long-established corporate citizens, celebrates its 160th anniversary. After its founding in 1845, New York Life quickly established itself as...