Россия для всегда !

Yesterday, for the first time, I had a close encounter of the third kind with real-life Russian music: Mussorsky’s opera Boris Gudunov, based on a play written by Pushkin, was being performed in the BOZAR.

Big, dramatic, crowded, heroic, dissonant, chaotic, basses and tuba’s, 4 hours of processions, famine and tsarevitjses,… it was Russia all over and I loved it!

Many thanks to aunt S. for the invitation.