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Conflict Unresolved: Shchedrin's The Enchanted Wanderer

By Jacob Slattery, 16 January 2015
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Reviewed at BAM: Howard Gilman Opera House, New York City on 14 January 2015
Programme
Shchedrin, The Enchanted Wanderer
Performers
Mariinsky Opera
Valery Gergiev, Conductor
Alexei Stepanyuk, Director
Irina Cherednikova, Costume Designer
Alexander Orlov, Set Designer
Kristina Kapustinskaya, Grusha the Gypsy, Storyteller
Andrei Popov, Flogged Monk, Prince, Magnetiser, Old Man in the Woods, Storyteller
Oleg Sychov, Ivan Severyanovich Flyagin, Storyteller
Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra
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Jacob Slattery
Jacob Slattery
Jacob is a musician and raconteur based out of New York City. As a writer, he operates an online arts and culture blog with the goal of providing momentum for community-based arts projects in NYC. As an oboist, Jacob has performed internationally with orchestras from Vienna to Seoul. Born and raised in the lake-ridden, gopher empire of Minnesota, Jacob received a dual-degree in Music Performance and Marketing from Augsburg College in Minneapolis. His blog can be found here.