"For me there could have been no better subject, no better poetic model, than Snegurochka, the shepherd Lel and Lovely Spring: for me there could be nothing more beautiful than the realm of th...więcej »
The composition of Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor -- based on the Song of Igor, a 12th-century Russian epic -- got off to a slow start, with the composer's career as an organic chemist preve...więcej »