07 Nov 2006
The diva, the director and a fight at the Russian opera
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article1959075.ece
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article1959075.ece
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow [Independent, 6 November 2006]
Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Theatre is at war. It is a battle that has pitted the traditionalists against the modernists and left the illustrious theatre scrabbling to defend its hard-won artistic reputation.