WONG Opera and Putin

Putin: Vladimir and Igor. Putin and the prince. War and peace, according to The Chronicle Herald. Then the curtain went up on Prince Igor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, and life was suddenly imitating art. The opera, by Russian composer Alexander Borodin, recounts Prince Igors 1185 military campaign against the Polovtsians, a nomadic people who roamed present-day Ukraine and Moments before Saturdays Live from the Met satellite transmission, I dutifully switched off my phone but not before glimpsing this breaking-news alert from the New York Times: Putin asks Russias Senate for permission to send troops to Ukraine. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.