Criticism

“Francesca da Rimini talks about love for Paolo and death like this in The Divine Comedy: “Once we read the story of Launcelot, together and carefree. One li...

“For eight years now, Madame Yvette Guilbert has been the permanent “darling” of the Parisian public. Not a single ministry has lasted in Paris for so long! ...

“The summer season is dying. We knew the almost deceased personally. The almost deceased was of lackey origin. Indeed! St. Petersburg has evolved amazingly.....

“Angelo I, the king of tenors. In ancient Greece he would have been made the god of singing, but here too he bears the title of “divine”. From his psychopath...

“This is more than a quarter of a century old. In Petrograd, then in St. Petersburg, an international congress of criminologists took place. A prison exhibit...

“I have rarely met a person with such an amazing physiognomy as Mounet-Sully, and it seems to me that his eyes contribute a lot to this. Amazing eyes, despit...

“Like many of my peers, at one time I was fond of operetta. But this was an operetta by Lentovsky, Rodon, Velskaya, Zorina, Vagliano, Davydov, Tartakov, Cher...

“Othello signs the papers. Desdemona throws a rose at him from the veranda. The rose crumbles, and its petals sprinkle the table, the Moor, and his picturesq...

“I talked with a new person, on whom “everything” at the Maly Theater depends.” – Why isn’t there a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Maly Theater? ...

“To say that Salvini is a great artist, who in the role of Othello becomes unattainable, is to repeat, “that day is day, and night is night, and time is time...

“The royal family left the stage: – Coclanov. The bearer of the great surname remained Coclain the son. A good actor. But... just be a good actor and be call...

“One noble but educated foreigner who came to St. Petersburg said to one St. Petersburger: “Of course, what interests me most is your drama theater.” It will...