The Muses Are Heard is a 1956 article by American author Truman Capote on the Everyman Opera's tour of Leningrad and Moscow in Soviet Russia. - AsNotedIn
On Thursday, the twenty-second of last December, after a train ride of three nights and two days from East Berlin, ninety-three Americans arrived in Russia's second-largest and northernmost metropolis, the port city that was once St Petersburg and is now Leningrad. They were members -- or, in a few instances, guests -- of Everyman Opera, Inc, the first American theatrical company ever to invade the Soviet Union, and their production of the George Gershwin-Ira Gershwin-DuBose Heyward opera "Porgy and Bess" was to be given fourteen performances in Leningrad, followed by twelve in Moscow, under the sponsorship of the Russian Ministry of Culture.
| Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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| 1955/12/12 | Truman Capote | Author | The Astoria Hotel, to which the company was driven in chartered buses from the Leningrad terminal Thursday morning, is situated on the impressive expanse of St Isaac's Square. | Admiralteysky Okrug, StP | |||
| 1956/10/19 | Truman Capote | Author | The second part of a two-part article, "Porgy and Bess in Russia" by Truman Capote, is ready for The New Yorker. | ||||
| 1956/10/27 | The New Yorker | Publisher | Truman Capote's "Porgy and Bess in Russia" concludes in The New Yorker. |
| Particulars for The Muses Are Heard (book): | |||
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| Writing Type | Article | ||
| Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
| Narrative Arts | Fiction | prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people | |
| Art Type | Opera | a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to classical music for singers and instrumentalists | |
| Cultural Affiliation | Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) | Eurasia empire existed 1922 to 1991 | |
| Area of Significance | Theatre | ||
| Writing Type | Travelogue | ||
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| Original Language: | English | ||
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