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Ivan Turgenev

Opera Review: Pauline Viardot’s and Ivan Turgenev’s First-Rate Fairy Opera Rediscovered

Colorful, characterful, and full of worldly wisdom, The Last Sorcerer—by a skilled and imaginative composer, to a text by the great Russian novelist— receives a superb world-premiere recording, with Met mezzo Jamie Barton and bass-baritone Eric Owens.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Bridge Records, Ivan Turgenev, Le Dernier Sorcier, Pauline Viardot, Ralph P. Locke

Theater Commentary/Review: A Not So Dumb “Month in The Country”

Given the Russian writer’s modernist pedigree, should director/playwright Richard Nelson and translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky be punished for putting some “unevenesses” into their staging of Turgenev’s finest play, “A Month in the Country”? I think not.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: A Month in the Country, Dan Aucoin, Ivan Turgenev, Richard Nelson, The Boston Globe, Williamstown-Theatre-Festival

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