Bolshoi Theatre Fires Another Director for Speaking Out Against the War
The Bolshoi Theatre has fired Russian director Alexander Molochnikov. The 30-year-old director who was set to direct productions of Rachmaninov’s “Francesca da Rimini” and Zemlinsky’s “Florentine Tragedy,” was let go due to his opposition to the war in Ukraine. According to a recent article in AFP, several fiercely pro-Kremlin figures, including Sergei Mironov and Zakhar Prilepin, co-chairmen of the political {…}