12 Dec 2005

War and Peace opens in Moscow, survives scandal

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2005-12-12T133954Z_01_ROB248321_RTRUKOC_0_UK-ARTS-RUSSIA-OPERA.xml&archived=False

By Meg Clothier [Reuters, 12 December 2005]

MOSCOW (Reuters) - When Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre postponed its new production of "War and Peace" after the conductor walked out, critics sharpened their pencils expecting the opera to be an embarrassing failure.