Myths of Russian opera
Francis Maes in conversation with Lut Van der Eycken
"By the Black Sea the beardless, swarthy Cossack with resined moustaches sings an ancient song as he loads his pistol; and over there, at the other end of Russia, out among the ice floes, the Russian entrepreneur drawsls a song as he harpoons the whale. Do we not have the makings of an opera of our own?"
(NIKOLAJ GOGOL…
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