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Kaleidoscopic colour and vocal splendour: Diaghilev’s Le Coq d’Or

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“Clarinets coiled themselves around the chromatic arabesques...”
Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 8 July 2014
Rimsky-Korsakov, Le Coq d'or (The Golden Cockerel)
Saisons Russes du XXI Siècle
Alevtina Ioffe, Conductor
Andris Liepa, Director
Natalia Goncharova, Set Designer
Petr Melentiev, Astrologer
Alexander Tsilinko, Tsar Dodon
Sergey Petrishchev, Prince Guidon
Denis Boldov, Prince Afron
Natalia Eliseeva, Amelfa
Nikolai Petrenko, General Polkan
Zarina Samadova, Golden Cockerel
Olesya Titenko, Queen of Shemakha
Moscow State Music Theatre Orchestra
Diaghilev's opera-ballet Le Coq d'Or returns to life
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