BOLSHOI'S POWERFUL 'ANNA KARENINA'

From: The Boston Globe | Date: March 24, 1988| Author: Christine Temin, Globe Staff | Copyright information

THE BOLSHOI BALLET -- In "Anna Karenina." Based on

Tolstoy's novel, with a libretto by B. Lvov-Anokhin.

Choreography by Maya Plisetskaya, Natalia Rizhenko, and

Victor Smirnov-Golovanov. Music by Rodion Shchedrin. Decor

by Valery Levantal. Lighting by Oleg Kopin. At the Wang

Center for the Performing Arts, last night. The American

premiere of a production that repeats Saturday night. Part

of the Soviet-Amer...

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