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'In Paris' review: Basics of expat romance
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[San Francisco Chronicle] - Sinyakina and five strong actors sing composer Dmitry Volkov's haunting and buoyant chorales, with the chorus providing accompaniment by blowing into bottles and beating on boxes. Cardboard cutout walls or cars revolve to reveal backstage support.
'In Paris' brings Baryshnikov to Berkeley Rep
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[San Francisco Chronicle] - Along with its two languages, music (by Dmitry Volkov) and movement figure importantly in the production. The spoken dialogue is all assigned to the two main characters. The supporting players sing and perform the instrumental score.
Theater review: 'In Paris' at The Broad Stage
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[Los Angeles Times] - Similarly, the music by Dmitry Volkov, a mix of choral numbers and arias, has a sense of humor even when supplying operatic heft. A toy rat and a flying sequence add to the poetic sprightliness. The performance, I'll admit, seemed rather insubstantial
Ninotchka Laughed. Now Misha Speaks -- Speaks Russian, That Is
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[Huffington Post] - Dmitry Volkov's music is called on to be many extraordinary things; the most memorable are the tortuous stratospheric, Cirque du Soleil-type wailing riffs for Sinyakina. All of this creates a theatrical rough and tumble, half commedia dell'arte and
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