Pharaoh's (Jewish?) Daughter Word from: menachem

Far be it from me to even entertain the blasphemous thought that I could contribute further to a discussion about Russian arts that Jake has initiated, but here goes:
I was at the Bolshoi Performance (Zakharova, Tsiskaridze, Alexandrova) of Pharaoh's Daughter at the Metropolitan Opera, and I think there is an interesting Jewish angle on it. I may be writing about this in my Jewish Press column, so here is a taste, with more to follow (unless Jake kicks me off before then). Maya Plisetskaya, who became the prima ballerina at the Bolshoi in 1945, has a fascinating memoir out from Yale UP, called I, Maya Plisetskaya, which deals with her trials as a Jew (and a revolutionary) in Russia.

Further, one character is called Ta-hor (pure?), the story is about Basya (the prototype, not Schechter the Other Pharaoh's Daughter) and it involves a social realism (the curtain is decorated by an Akhenaten like caricature that certainly smells of mono-theism). Also, the costume design is Arabesque. Can you get more Jewish than that?
Still not convinced? Take these names from the children dancers: Sarah E. Goldstein and William S. Rosenberg (there are others as well).
More on this later, perhaps.