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BORIS YELTSIN ; Gorbachev's nemesis who brought down the Soviet Union and led the new Russian Federation
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The hero of the failed coup d'etat of August 1991, Boris Yeltsin
enjoyed the distinction,otherwiseunknown among politicians of the
Soviet era, of returning to power after having been sacked in
ignominious circumstances. His switchback career was virtually a
leitmotif of the perestroika years, his escapades and his populist
rhetoric had given him the image of a man who was either too
erratic, flamboyant and unstable to pose a real threat to the
Communist establishment, or a potentially dangerous rabble-rouser.
From that bungled coup he emerged as a master of political crowd-
control, a skilled ...
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Christoph Willibald Gluck.(Brief Article)(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; Christoph Willibald Gluck. Ipermestra (Venedig...musica in drei Akten von Pietro Metastasio. Hrsg. von Axel Beer. (Samtliche...5776. DM 445.] Christoph Willibald Gluck. Libretti: Die...verschollener Werke. Hrsg. von Klaus Hortschansky...
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Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787) Pathography
Magazine article from: Alcoholism
; ...REFERENCES 1. COOPERM. Gluck. London: 1935. 2...3. REISSMAN A. W. Gluck, sein Leben und seine...SCHMID A. Chr. W. Ritter von Gluck. Dessen Leben und tonkunstlerisches...neurological disorders - Christoph Willibald Gluck (I7I4-1787...
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Christoph Willibald Gluck.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; Christoph Willibald Gluck. La clemenza di Tito (Neapel 1752): Dramma per musica in drei Akten von Pietro Metastasio. Hrsg. von Franz...495-46-7; BA 5773. DM 550.] Christoph Willibald Gluck's La clemenza di Tilo was first...
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SONG AT TWILIGHT
Magazine article from: Opera News
; Gluck's late-career masterwork Iphignie...note of it for a louis," complained Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787) in a letter to a baroness...encounters with minor forces." By the time Gluck capped off his career with his eight...
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CLASSICAL & OPERA
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...National Opera's production of Gluck's `Orpheus and Eurydice' opens...and a half after Monteverdi, Christoph Willibald von Gluck took the Enlightenment perspective...ingenious instrumentation. But Gluck's version is no less masterful...
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Summer Festivals
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune
; ...it. - Drottningholm, Sweden Gluck Festival tel: (46-8) 660...Court Theater, three operas by Christoph Willibald von Gluck: ''Orfeo ed Euridice...The program also includes Gluck's pantomime ballet ''Don Juan...
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Lyric freezes subscription prices.
Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
; Byline: John Von Rhein Jan. 12--With ticket sales...operas it has never before presented, Christoph Willibald von Gluck's "Iphigenie en Tauride" and Francis...New to the Lyric repertory will be Gluck's tragic opera "Iphigenie en Tauride...
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Don't look!
Magazine article from: The Village Voice
; ...His libretto for Orfeo ed Euridice, coupled with Christoph Willibald von Gluck's music, resulted in an opera less ornamented...a utopia of nymphs and shepherds more freely than Gluck and Calzabigi were able to do in an era of court...
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VISUALLY DAZZLING OPERA IS INCONSISTENT.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot
; ...her expression of emotions much too restrained. Christoph Willibald von Gluck, the opera's composer, holds a significant position...conductors. CAPTION(S): Graphic OPERA REVIEW Gluck's ``Orfeo and Euridice'' Virginia Opera Harrison...
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Love in an ideal world
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London
; ...ORCHESTRA ** Barbican THE worldly, stateless composer Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787) had already started to think of baroque...to listen to the orchestra alone, which was not Gluck's plan, although, as this was the earlier version...
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