Doctor of Musical arts candidate Valeria Ore, mezzo-soprano, and pianist Dr. Spencer Baker will perform excerpts from the Choral Opera "Boyarina Morozova by Rodion Shchedrin. The opera's story is based on one of the most terrible and tragic episodes of Russian history: the persecution of the “Old Believers” (people who rejected any changes of liturgical texts and rituals introduced by the reforms of Patriarch Nikon) and the schism within orthodoxy.

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