Reporter: Thomas Swan
'Blue Note to Become Apple Curator
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'Dmitri Tchneriakov Combines Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' and Iolanta
Stage director Dmitrii Tchneriakov has a dream. He wants to produce the entire Russian stage repertoire. Since this is Paris and not the New York Met, where every other production has to be one of Wagner's Ring Cycle, he just might be able to get it done. Tchneriakov got off to a good start recently when he combined two of Pyotor Tchaikovsky's pieces, Nutcracker and Iolanta and saw them performed at the Paris Opéra at the Palais Garnier March 14th. -
'Meet Arsha Kaviani, Concert Pianist and so Much More
While Arsha Kaviani is technically a citizen of Dubai, UAE, born to Iranian parents, Arsha is no more a citizen of one or the either. His real home is any auditorium that houses a grand piano, where imagination is alive, where arias play and passions are enflamed, where concertos blaze fire across the black and white keys of a grand piano. Arsha Kaviani is a concert pianist in the physical world. In his soul, he is an artist. Classicalite caught up with the pianist on an early Sunday morning in Portland, Oregon and a late evening in London, England.
