Unknown Shostakovich Opera Discovered
"Large fragments of a satirical opera, Orango, which Shostakovich composed in 1932 - a project of which almost no one was aware - have been found in Moscow. The English musicologist Gerard McBurney is in the process of preparing a performable score of this [futurist] fable."...Le Devoir article (in french)
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26/03/2009
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