Soviet Wizard of Oz at the Staatsballett Berlin
Emerald City: Scarecrow (Federico Spallitta), Tin Man (Artur Lill), Dorothy (Polina Semionova), Lion (Vladislav Marinov) (Photo: Enrico Nawrath/Staatsballett Berlin)
A new ballet is being performed in Berlin that is based on the Soviet version of the “Wizard of Oz.” It is the only version of the Oz stories that most people in Russia and the Eastern bloc countries ever knew.
David Hecht reports.
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