http://livingattheopera.com/blog International and National Opera & Dance reviews from a passionate Opera Fan Sun, 20 May 2012 22:33:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2008/11/06/second-opinion-mussorgsky-boris-godunov/ http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2008/11/06/second-opinion-mussorgsky-boris-godunov/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:00:31 +0000 Administrator http://livingattheopera.com/blog/?p=550 Posted in Articles

By Harvey Steiman Reprinted with permission from Seen and Heard – Music Web’s Live Opera, Concert and Recital Reviews. Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the San Francisco Opera, Conductor, Vassily Sinaisky, War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco. 2.11.2008 (HS) Boris [...]]]> http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2008/11/06/second-opinion-mussorgsky-boris-godunov/feed/ 0 http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2007/01/05/the-mariinskys-boris-godunov-hits-its-mark/ http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2007/01/05/the-mariinskys-boris-godunov-hits-its-mark/#comments Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:27:37 +0000 Administrator http://livingattheopera.com/blog/?p=49 Posted in Articles

Modest Musorgsky, March 21, 1839 – March 28, 1881 The number of performances of Boris Godunov produced the biggest change in the Mariinsky Festival’s schedule since it was first announced in the summer of 2005. At first, there were to [...]]]> http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2007/01/05/the-mariinskys-boris-godunov-hits-its-mark/feed/ 0 http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2006/11/19/the-mariinsky-invasion/ http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2006/11/19/the-mariinsky-invasion/#comments Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:23:27 +0000 Administrator http://livingattheopera.com/blog/?p=43 Posted in Articles

Like a mighty caravan heavily laden with artistic gold, the Mariinsky Theater journeyed half the globe in October, 2006, to transport the largest, and what turned out to be the longest, festival program in its international history, to the Orange [...]]]> http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2006/11/19/the-mariinsky-invasion/feed/ 0 http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2006/01/21/the-mariinsky-theater/ http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2006/01/21/the-mariinsky-theater/#comments Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:12:18 +0000 Administrator http://livingattheopera.com/blog/?p=31 Posted in Articles

This article was written in celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, Russia. In the foreword to John Ardoin’s book, Valery Gergiev and the Kirov, the late actor and writer Peter Ustinov remarks that for most of us in [...]]]> http://livingattheopera.com/blog/2006/01/21/the-mariinsky-theater/feed/ 2