Ismene Brown

Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin: ‘The KGB put a microphone in our marriage bed’

On the eve of the UK premiere of Shchedrin’s new opera at the Barbican, Ismene Brown talks to the Russian super-couple about how they survived the Soviet Union

Plisetskaya in ‘Romeo and Juliet’, 1964. She was one of the supreme trophies in the Soviet display case, the most garlanded, the most suspected. [Getty Images] 
issue 25 October 2014
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