Acclaimed music journalist John Ardoin focuses on the inspired directorship of Valery Gergiev in his eloquent celebration of the Kirov theater and its heroic survival. In the 1990s this great artistic institution regained its original name, the Mariinsky Theater, and thanks to Gergiev's efforts won back its status as Russia's premier opera theatre. HARDCOVER.
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