... By Herbert Farjeon Sorotchintsi Fair Savoy I FOR this ambitious venture at the Savoy Theatre, Russia's entry into the war is mainly responsible. Before the curtain rose on the first performance, the London Symphony Orchestra played God Save the King and the International, and the whole of the audience rose to its feet and remained standing throughout both pieces. When the curtain fell at ...

... Russian Opera Mussorgsky's Sorotchintsi Fair at the Savoy Theatre The merrymakers of Sorotchintsi a Ukrainian village, group themselves round the gipsy fortune-teller Lipa Balmont), whose tale of a 44 pig-headed devil in a red coat plays its part in the gay, inconsequent story Mussorgsky's comic opera, Sorotchintsi Fair, which is based on a story of Gogol, who himself was a native of ...