Fyodor Dostoevsky

...friend's daughter, and she remorsefully reached out to you, would you just totally ignore her? I'm sure you have read Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky (I have too), and I hope you remember that in it, a spiritual young prostitute helps save...

In this article: Dick Cheney, Grace Kelly, New York City, New Jersey, Tavern on the Green, Dostoyevsky, and HBO

...Patrice Chereau's riveting yet humane production of "From the House of the Dead," Janacek's towering final opera, a free adaptation of Dostoyevsky's prison-camp novel. Stefan Margita, Peter Mattei, and Kurt Streit are but three standouts in...

In this article: Tosca, Le Nozze di Figaro, Suor Angelica, Il trittico, Il tabarro, Gianni Schicchi, From the House of the Dead, Fabio Luisi, and Leos Janacek

...as Gorianchikov in Janacek's "From the House of the Dead. '' (Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera) NEW YORK - Like the prisoners in the Dostoyevsky novel on which it is based, Janacek's darkly transfixing final opera "From the House of the...

In this article: Leos Janacek, Dostoyevsky, Patrice Chereau, Willard White, God, New York City Opera, From the House of the Dead, and Crime and Punishment

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE: Patrice Chereau directs and Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Janacek's "From the House of the Dead," based on the Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Peter Mattei and Kurt Streit. Tomorrow at 8 p.m. and Tuesday at 9 p.m..

In this article: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Whip It, From the House of the Dead, Leos Janacek, Dostoyevsky, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Patrice Chereau

...last opera, applause surged to roars of "bravo" for the uniformly superb troupe of soloists, chorus and actors. The opera, based on Dostoyevsky's novel of the same name, is set among the inmates of a Siberian prison camp. During the...

In this article: From the House of the Dead, Leos Janacek, Dostoyevsky, Guernica, Pablo Picasso, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Patrice Chereau

...release a list of his or her reading. To prevent cheating - an illiterate candidate for prime minister claiming that the complete works of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Marcel Proust were his bedtime reading - a system of examination could be...

In this article: Yann Martel, Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jorge Luis Borges, James Joyce, House of Commons, Booker Prize, and Home Rule for Ireland

...Susan (Teri Hatcher) was thrown in the slammer. At the close of the episode, a prison guard wheels by a book cart and Susan plucks off a copy of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment. The skinniest edition of Dostoyevsky's classic I've...

In this article: Jane Curtin, Lara Spencer, The Insider, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Samantha Harris, Dan Aykroyd, and 30 Rock

...night in a production that featured the long overdue company debuts of director Patrice Chereau and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Based on Dostoyevsky's novel and sung in Czech, it was simultaneously grim and uplifting but always...

In this article: From the House of the Dead, Willard White, Tosca, Leos Janacek, and Patrice Chereau

...chief who on one hand could come across as a gruff Irish cop -- but on the other lectured at Amherst and other New England colleges on Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment. ``When you work with him, you find he's really . . . a civil...

In this article: Miami, Florida, Tomas Regalado, William Bratton, New York City Police Department, New York City, Charles Ramsey, and The Miami Herald

...at the Sheremetyev Palace. We also want to draw particular attention to theater performances, lectures and film screenings at the Dostoevsky museum, a book exhibition at the National Library, a unique film program at Dom Kino cinema with...

In this article: Norway, Thomas Mann, Knut Hamsun, Ernest Hemingway, and The Days