Bolshoi fires bolshy director

Bolshoi fires bolshy director

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norman lebrecht

September 04, 2022

The Russian director Alexander Molochnikov has been sacked from next July’s productions of Rachmaninov’s Francesca da Rimini and Zemlinsky’s Florentine Tragedy, apparently due to his dissident views on the war in Ukraine.

Molochnikov, 30, is one of Moscow’s busiest and most versatile directors, working across threatre, opera and film.

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