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Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Russian in Nature, Greek at Its Roots


Wall Street Journal- India

Russian in Nature, Greek at Its Roots
Wall Street Journal- India
How can you resist an opera that ends with a 50-voice chorus belting out "Slava [glory], Athena!"? Sergey Taneyev's "Oresteia" (1895) may not be a lost masterpiece, but conductor Leon Botstein and the Bard Festival gave this curious Russian-Greek ...

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