An Opera Is Updated, and a Diva Is Displeased
MOSCOW, Oct. 31 — An operatic war is raging here, with one side devoted to preserving the canonical status and interpretation of Tchaikovsky ’s "Yevgeny Onegin" and the other seeking to breathe new life into a Bolshoi Theater standard.
The great soprano Galina Vishnevskaya was so infuriated by a new production of "Onegin" at the Bolshoi in September that she canceled her 80th-birthday gala, which was to be held there last Wednesday, and moved it to the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.
MOSCOW, Oct. 31 — An operatic war is raging here, with one side devoted to preserving the canonical status and interpretation of Tchaikovsky ’s "Yevgeny Onegin" and the other seeking to breathe new life into a Bolshoi Theater standard.
The great soprano Galina Vishnevskaya was so infuriated by a new production of "Onegin" at the Bolshoi in September that she canceled her 80th-birthday gala, which was to be held there last Wednesday, and moved it to the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall.
"I’ll never enter this theater again," Ms. Vishnevskaya said
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