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Rothschild's Violin

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Audience Score
70
Rothschild's Violin
NR 1 hr 41 min
1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich completes the orchestration, but in 1948 is advised to suppress the opera, during Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans". Jewish motifs enter Shostakovich's own work.
StarringSergei MakovetskyDainius KazlauskasTõnu Kark
DirectorEdgardo Cozarinsky
WriterEdgardo Cozarinsky

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Original Language:Russian