Putin applauds Plisetskaya
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Reuters file photo shows Russian President Vladimir Putin welcoming prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya before a performance at Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow on November 20, 2000. Plisetskaya died yesterday in Germany of a heart attack, at the age of 89. Putin expressed ‘deep condolences’ to her family.
Maya’s father was murdered in Stalin’s bloodlust of 1938; her mother was sent to Siberia.
Just been to an excellent recital by Stephen Hough at Glyndebourne. One of his encores was in memory of Mme Plisetskaya : a movement from Don Quixote by Minkus, I think transcribed by Hough for solo piano.