Moscow opera chief dies, at 47
RIPThe death has been reported of Vladimir Gorokhov, artistic director of Helikon Opera in Moscow.
No cause of death has been given.
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No cause of death given.
6th. floor window?
The cause of death has been given. He died of a heart attack in Mexico.
I don’t know anything about him, but when I lived in Moscow in the early 2000s the Helikon was a most interesting company; performing in a venue definitely repurposed from non-operatic uses and making virtue of necessity.