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Article: Pushkin/Prokofiev 'Godunov' finally realized.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- April 16, 2007
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Byline: David Patrick Stearns
Apr. 16--PRINCETON -- Academia is the best home for the impossible. Such was the task at hand for the provocative, extravagant Princeton University-produced Boris Godunov -- not the famous opera, but the Alexander Pushkin play as it might have been rendered by legendary director Vsevolod Meyerhold with music by Sergei Prokofiev. The project was being rehearsed and the composer completed 55 minutes of music in 1936 -- the year Joseph Stalin squashed Shostakovich's hit opera, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, in a single stroke. Meyerhold canceled his project, whose Macbeth-like parable of changing dictators would have proved a magnet for ...
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