The legendary director Yuri Lyubimov turned 95 a month ago and was working on a new Bolshoi production of Prince Igor.
He appears to have suffered a heart attack and is in a coma in Moscow city hospital #23. Let’s pray that he pulls through.
Sad news from Russia: Lyubimov is in a coma
November 1, 2012 by
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