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Example sentences for: kirov
How can you use “kirov” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Kirov Opera (Metropolitan Opera, New York City).
While "the great orchestras are all sounding pretty much alike, the Kirov has a character all its own" (Matthew Gurewitsch, the New York Times ).
Also, I happen to have on tape two versions of Swan Lake , one featuring Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev (1966) and one with the Kirov Ballet (1986).
Conversely when cities like Kuibyshev and Sverdlovsk or institutions like the Kirov Theater or streets like Gorky Street regained their original names, it was rather as if they had got back on track, as if they had been on a siding since, say, the tsar and his family were murdered at Ekaterinburg.
A spate of profiles heaps praise on the flamboyant conductor Valery Gergiev, who saved the Kirov financially as Russia went capitalist.