The Bolshoi Rocked by New Directions

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ROBERT SIEGEL
All Things Considered (NPR)
06-07-2006
The Bolshoi Rocked by New Directions

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For many years, Russia's Bolshoi Ballet was the flagship of Soviet culture. But in the 1990s, in-fighting and a series of different directors seriously damaged its morale and its artistic standing. Now a new director is shaking things up. But he's made enemies with some Bolshoi veterans, who say he's destroying the ballet's ...

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