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Buying tickets at the Pushkin Theatre. Spring 1942
On 3 March the Musical Comedy Theatre revived its performances at the Pushkin Theatre.
On 5 April there was a concert with Kirov Theatre performers Pavel Andreyev, Ivan Nechaev, Vera Shestakova, Vladimir Kastorsky and Nadezhda Velter to open the philharmonic season. The Radio Broadcasting Committee Orchestra was conducted by Karl Eliasberg. The concert was broadcast on the radio. “In the first half Kastorsky sang Susanin’s aria and I sang the aria of the Maid of Orleans,” Nadezhda Velter recalled. “I asked my husband (Georgy Tsorn, a Kirov Theatre designer – Ed.) how my voice sounded. ‘I wasn’t really listening,’ he replied, ‘I couldn’t take my eyes off your terribly thin faces.’”
N. Velter. About the Opera House and Me. Leningrad: Sovietsky Kompozitor, 1984. P. 137