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Alexander Nevsky

Coaching Russian pronunciation for Prokofiev’s “Alexander Nevsky”

Posted on 28.03.202526.07.2026 by Paolina

28 March 2025

“Rise, Russians, to a glorious war, to a mortal war!”—our incredible choir sang to me this morning, as I dutifully coached their pronunciation.

“Are you bloody kidding me?!”—said my brain, my heart, and every fiber of my being, before I lost it and worked the whole session in tears.

I don’t know what’s worse—the war itself, the world’s attempts to stop it, or the quiet horror of us simply getting used to it.

Masterpiece of music. Nightmare of a text. Phenomenal choir work (gracias chicos ❤️). And one devastated pianist.

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Polina Bogdanova - pianist/harpsichord player in Wolfgang Rihm's "Jakob Lenz", Bremen (Germany)
Polina Bogdanova - pianist during the master-class in La Monnaie, Brussels (photo by Hugo Segers)
Polina Bogdanova - pianist in Franck's piano quintett, Flagey (Brussels)
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