Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin dies aged 92: Bolshoi

Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, whose work included famed ballets such as Anna Karenina and Carmen Suite , has died at the age of 92, Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre said Friday, calling his passing an “enormous tragedy”. Shchedrin, husband of late ballet legend Maya Plisetskaya, was “one of the greatest contemporary geniuses”, whose “operas, ballets and