Mavra

That decision, along with the first big flop of his career, the opera "Mavra" in 1922, convinced Stravinsky that he had to stop representing himself as a Russian composer.

NYT > Home Page By RICHARD TARUSKIN 2010

Specht, who conducted "Mavra," said opera is more difficult to conduct than symphony because of the many added elements, such as coordinating light cues and properly timing the musicians with the singers on stage.

unknown title lbain@mndaily.com 2009

Among them are "Song of the Volga Boatmen," which was discovered in 1996, and the opera buffa "Mavra."

Orchestra Adds Narrator for Show Pia Catton 2012

In this book, Dresden is blackmailed by the vampire queen Mavra into bringing her the necromantic tome The Word Of Kemmler in exchange for not ruing the lives of himself and his friend Murphy.

June 2007 2007

Dead Beat starts with Dresden being confronted my Mavra and forced to search for The Word.

REVIEW: Dead Beat by Jim Butcher 2007

In this book, Dresden is blackmailed by the vampire queen Mavra into bringing her the necromantic tome The Word Of Kemmler in exchange for not ruing the lives of himself and his friend Murphy.

REVIEW: Dead Beat by Jim Butcher 2007

Harry just needs it to spare Murphy the ruin of her career and life by Mavra.

REVIEW: Dead Beat by Jim Butcher 2007

This leads Mavra and some others into a Well World adventure and all that such a journey entails.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Exiles At the Well Of Souls - Jack L. Chalker Blue Tyson 2007

It was like Mavra herself — it had the withered human shell, but underneath it all was something from a nightmare.

Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005

If Mavra needed something that soon, it meant that some kind of power struggle was about to go down.

Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005