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Bolshoi modernists get a nasty blast from the past.(News)
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BYLINE: Andrew Osborn
Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Theatre is at war. It is a battle that has pitted the traditionalists against the modernists and left the illustrious theatre scrabbling to defend its hard-won artistic reputation.
The conflict has triggered dark mutterings about a plot to blacken its famous name engineered, it is claimed, by "the other place" - the Mariinsky (formerly the Kirov) Ballet in St Petersburg.
The first shot in what has become a damagingly public debate about the Bolshoi's future was fired by Galina Vishnevskaya, its most famous diva and ...
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