Kikimora	Baba Yaga

A comment from Marina Lantseva, who played both of the characters pictured above.
"Constantin Stanislavski, the great Russian theater director and theoretician believed that an actor needed to take his or her own personality onto the stage when they began to play a character. I searched inside myself in order to find Baba Yaga and Kikimora characteristic features ... And... I have found them right away! What a shock! I thought I was such a nice person!"

Review from the North Star - a Russian newspaper in the Twin Cities -Translated from Russian

Comments in Russian | Comments in English

Repertoire
(Linked program notes are in .pdf files in English and Russian)

• Tchaikovsky. Trepak from Nutcracker and A Song of a Gypsy Girl (Lynne Gardow)
• Rimsky-Korsakov. The Filght of the Bumblebee
• Prokofiev. March from The Love for Three Oranges and Menuet from Summer Night Suite
• Shostakovich. Polka (Bureaucrat) from the ballet Bolt
• Rachmaninoff. Chanson Georgienne (Lynne Gardow, mezzo-soprano)
• Mussorgsky. Hut on Chicken Legs from the Pictures at an Exhibition

Talent

• Marina Liadova, Music Director
• Lynne Gardow, Mezzo Soprano
• Dr. Dimitri Shapovalov, Author of Program Notes
• Deborah Clapp, Orchestra Manager
• Masha Petrenko, Emcee
• Shana Eisenberg, Emcee