Gresham College Lectures
Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Lecture Series
24 September 2019
1. 'Exporting Russia: Diaghilev's Beginnings'
29 October 2019
2. 'The Ballets Russes: Courting the Exotic'
21 January 2020
3. 'The Rite of Spring: A Failure and a Triumph
18 February 2020
4. 'The Ballets Russes: Playing with the Past'
7 April 2020
5. 'The Ballets Russes: Turning French'
12 May 2020
6. 'Diaghilev and Prokofiev: Return to Emotion'
Russian Opera and the State Lecture Series
16 November 2018
‘The First True Russian Opera?’
20 November 2018
‘Glinka's A Life for the Tsar’
16 January 2019
‘Power, Suffering and Drama: The Opera Boris Godunov’
22 January 2019
‘Musorgsky’s Boris Godunov’
26 March 2019
‘Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk’
14 May 2019
‘Prokofiev’s Epic Opera’
21 May 2019
‘Prokofiev’s War and Peace’
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