Who’s The Man Who’s Going To Try To Tame The Snakepit At The Bolshoi?

“Vladimir Urin, the man who was appointed Tuesday as the new Bolshoi Theatre director, … won respect from colleagues by quietly revamping Moscow’s 90-year-old Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre to prominence over the past decade by attracting international talent while also popularising contemporary ballet in Russia before the trend caught on in the Bolshoi.”