{"id":404545,"date":"2011-04-28T12:35:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T12:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/28\/putin-the-boot-into-the-sleazy-tsar\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T12:35:31","slug":"putin-the-boot-into-the-sleazy-tsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/putin-the-boot-into-the-sleazy-tsar\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin the boot into the sleazy tsar&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1379415\/The-Tsars-Bride-review-Putin-boot-sleazy-tsar.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>dailymail.co.uk<\/span><\/a> : \u00a0\u00a0<\/span> \u2018It\u2019s not the History Channel \u2014 this is an artistic interpretation,\u2019 says director Paul Curran in a programme note defence of his updating of Rimsky-Korsakov\u2019s melodrama about dark deeds during the reign of Ivan The Terrible to contemporary Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Well, no. But it\u2019s not Rimsky-Korsakov either. And his sumptuous, folksy 1899 score sits rather uneasily around designer Kevin Knight\u2019s lap dancers and glitzy penthouse swimming pool parties.<\/p>\n<p>The story concerns Marfa, the doomed third wife of the 16th-century terrible tsar. It\u2019s a tale of violence and corruption, passion and power politics, jealousy and thuggery. And it ends with a poisoning and a scenery-chewing mad scene.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/201ed65bget.media_353-150x90.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Continued here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/foreign.peacefmonline.com\/entertainment\/201104\/156771.php\" title=\"Putin the boot into the sleazy tsar...\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Putin the boot into the sleazy tsar&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> dailymail.co.uk : \u00a0\u00a0 \u2018It\u2019s not the History Channel \u2014 this is an artistic interpretation,\u2019 says director Paul Curran in a programme note defence of his updating of Rimsky-Korsakov\u2019s melodrama about dark deeds during the reign of Ivan The Terrible to contemporary Moscow. Well, no<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":404546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-404545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Putin the boot into the sleazy tsar... - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/28\/putin-the-boot-into-the-sleazy-tsar\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Putin the boot into the sleazy tsar... - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"dailymail.co.uk : \u00a0\u00a0 \u2018It\u2019s not the History Channel \u2014 this is an artistic interpretation,\u2019 says director Paul Curran in a programme note defence of his updating of Rimsky-Korsakov\u2019s melodrama about dark deeds during the reign of Ivan The Terrible to contemporary Moscow. 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