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Opera Album Review: Finally on CD — a Searing ’60s Opera from Russia about the Nazi Era

Moissey Vainberg’s opera powerfully evokes the brutality of Hitler’s extermination camps and the moral ambiguity of postwar Germany.

By: Ralph P. Locke Filed Under: Featured, Music, Opera, Review Tagged: Capriccio, Graz Opera Chorus and Philharmonic, Holocaust, Moissey Vainberg, Ralph P. Locke, Roland Kluttig, Russian, The Passenger

Book Review: “Necropolis” — A Book of the Russian Literary Dead

This memoir offers an invaluable, broad look at intellectual Russia before and after the revolutions of 1917.

By: J. Kates Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Columbia University Press, J Kates, Necropolis, Russian, translation, Vladislav Khodasevich

Book Review: “The Last Days of Stalin” — The Death of a Nightmare

Joshua Rubenstein has penned a compact, chilling account of the demise of the Russian tyrant.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Communist history, Joseph Stalin, Joshua Rubenstein, Russian, The Last Days of Stalin, Yale-University-Press

Book/Theater Review: Vladimir Nabokov Does That Shakespeherian Rag

Nabokov will become much more seriously playful about extinction and the nature of love in the increasingly complex fables to come. “The Tragedy of Mr. Morn” is his initial earnest fairy tale.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured, Theater, World Books Tagged: Russian, The Tragedy of Mr.Morn, translation, vladimir-nabokov

Fuse Books: A Few Year End Literary Favorites

As the year nears its end, time is running out to write at length about some of the new books that gave me pleasure. Thus this quick list of favorites. As usual, my taste runs to prose that’s off-the-beaten-path.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Aharon Appelfeld, An Answer From the Silence: A Story from the Mountains, Andrew Bromfield, Blooms of Darkness, Croatian, David Williams, Dubravka-Ugresic, german, Hebrew, I Am Not Stiller, Karaoke Culture, Laish, Max Frisch, Mike Mitchell, Russian, The Hall of the Singing Caryatids, translation, Until the Dawn's Light, Victor Pelevin

Culture Vulture: Three Russian Warhorses Strut Their Stuff

By Helen Epstein July 30 featured a Russian warhorse program at Tanglewood: Glinka’s “Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila”; Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, and Prokofiev’s Music from the ballet Romeo and Juliet. These are familiar (some might say over-familiar) works for orchestra, but, of course, there’s a reason they’re still being programmed. […]

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music Tagged: Berkshires, Boston Symphony Orchestra, BSO, Caldwell-Titcomb, Charles Dutoit, Classical Music, Culture Vulture, Kirill Gerstein, Russian, Tanglewood

Dance/Movie Review: Heart Throbs — “Ballet Russes”

I enjoyed the movie —- critics from outside the dance world have found Ballet Russes charming, too — but the filmmakers’ real gifts are the oral histories that they collected from these dancers just before it was too late.

By: Debra Cash Filed Under: Dance, Film Tagged: arts, ballet, Ballets-Russes, documentary, Film, Russia, Russian

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