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Primitive Russia Stakes Its Claim On Wagner’s Ring »

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Richard Wagner, May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883 If one of Valery Gergiev’s objectives has been to keep the Mariinsky Theater’s version of Wagner’s Ring in the minds of the operatic public, he certainly has accomplished his goal. The performance schedule that he and set designer, Georgy Tsypin, have followed since the production debuted [...]

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    The articles on Rigoletto, L'Elisir d'amore, Khovanshchina, Macbeth, Boris Godunov, La Forza del destino and Wagner's Ring Cycle were first published in Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the USA, Vol 33, 2004.

    The articles Primitive Russia Stakes Its Claim on Wagner's Ring, The Mariinsky Invasion and The Mariinsky's Boris Godunov Hits Its Mark were published in Transactions of the Association of Russian-American Scholars in the USA, Vol 34, 2006-2007.

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