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'Godunov' rises from Stalin's Terror
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Patricia Cohen
International Herald Tribune
04-11-2007
In 1936, two of the Soviet Union's greatest artists decided to work on a new production of Pushkin's ''Boris Godunov'' for the author's coming jubilee. The composer Sergei Prokofiev wrote 24 pieces, while the visionary stage director Vsevolod Meyerhold mapped out scenes and started rehearsals.The following year, Stalin's Terror fixed its gaze on Meyerhold and he abandoned the project. Three years later, he was dead by firing squad.But now, thanks to the recent discovery of Meyerhold's original notes and Prokofiev's handwritten score and ...
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