Photo Coverage: THE MAID OF PSKOV Preps for Opening at the Bolshoi

Yesterday, July 21, Ekaterina Shcherbachenko, Roman Muravitsky, and Alexei Tanovitski performed during a dress rehearsal of the Bolshoi theatre's new staging of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's open-air opera 'The Maid of Pskov' in Pskov's Kremlin, some 650 km (404 miles) northwest of Moscow. The opera, directed by Yuri Laptev, a Mariinsky Theatre soloist and Russian Presidential Adviser on cultural issues, involves more than 500 people including actors, soloists, the choir and members of historical clubs. BroadwayWorld brings coverage of the event below.