The Bolshoi, Where Art Is History; The Creative Collapse of Moscow's Legendary Theater

The Washington Post | September 11, 1994| | Copyright

The Bolshoi Theater is one of the most beautiful edifices in Moscow. But the Bolshoi Theater is also one of the most striking signs of the decay of Russian culture today.

It is the emblematic theater of Russia, absorbing Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky, the deep-voiced glory of Chaliapin, the dance of Ulanova and Plisetskaya, along with the dramatic worlds of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Chekhov and Pasternak. The Bolshoi should be an embodiment of all the best characteristics in Russian culture: generosity of soul, spiritual purity, the ability to absorb foreign traits without losing its ...

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