Actors : Dainius Kazlauskas, Tõnu Kark, Sergey Makovetskiy, Tarmo Männard, Directors : Edgardo Cozarinsky,
1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich ...