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Experience the eighth season of the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD in cinemas nationwide. The broadcast of Borodin’s Prince Igor will be presented live on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 12:00 Pm Et / 9:00 Am Pt, followed by an Encore presentation in select cinemas on Wednesday, March 5th at 6:30 Pm in all time zones.
Borodin’s defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production is a brilliant psychological journey through the mind of its conflicted hero, with the founding of the Russian nation as the backdrop. Star bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov takes on the monumental title role,...
Experience the eighth season of the Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD in cinemas nationwide. The broadcast of Borodin’s Prince Igor will be presented live on Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 12:00 Pm Et / 9:00 Am Pt, followed by an Encore presentation in select cinemas on Wednesday, March 5th at 6:30 Pm in all time zones.
Borodin’s defining Russian epic, famous for its Polovtsian Dances, comes to the Met for the first time in nearly 100 years. Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new production is a brilliant psychological journey through the mind of its conflicted hero, with the founding of the Russian nation as the backdrop. Star bass-baritone Ildar Abdrazakov takes on the monumental title role,...
- 2/20/2014
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
At Russia’s southern border, a swaggering prince named Vladimir hosts costly festivities shadowed by threats from its Central Asian nemesis. An all-out war has brutalized the region; what’s needed now is order, purpose, and pride. Even as the latter-day Vlad locked down Sochi against Chechen terrorists and welcomed the world to the Winter Games, the Metropolitan Opera mounted its own imperial Russian spectacular. Borodin’s Prince Igor swept back across the company’s stage steppes for the first time in nearly a century. Usually, Valery Gergiev would have been on the podium for the occasion; instead, the Met happily made do with Gianandrea Noseda, an Italian whose feel for Slavic music evidently goes marrow-deep. Gergiev was at Putin’s side in Sochi, conducting a mash-up of his nation’s cultural history. Somehow, Noseda’s opening night in New York felt like the more gloriously Russian event.There’s...
- 2/10/2014
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
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