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Even crazier than the books: Gerald Barry's Alice
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Listen with Mother: Tsar Saltan as autism parable at La Monnaie
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ParisSnegurochka (La Fille de neige/ The Snow Maiden)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Snegurochka, The Snow Maiden
Mikhail Tatarnikov; Dmitri Tcherniakov; Opéra national de Paris; Elena Zaytseva; Gleb Filshtinsky; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris