with Bizet’s music rethought by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin. For CARMEN.maquia, Sansano has supplemented the opera’s 35 minutes of nonvocal music with pieces of other Bizet compositions ...

The score is the 45-minute “Carmen Suite”that Rodion Shchedrin composed for Alberto Alonso’s 1967 ballet. Shchedrin hopscotches through the opera’s themes, drawing also on Bizet’s ...

"The dancer's spouse Rodion Shchedrin called me," Urin said. "She died of a heart failure. Doctors struggled to save her but could do nothing." "It is hard to speak about it," Urin said.

Rodion Shchedrin's ballet based on the short story of the same name by Anton Chekhov, staged by the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. The inimitable Maya Plisetskaya in the on-screen ...