Award-winning ballet star, Sergei Filin was walking home in central Moscow when a masked man threw acid in his face.

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Former Royal Ballet star Ivan Putrov leads the 16-strong cast.

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In the arts, Gangel has interviewed rock legends Eric Clapton and Keith Richards as well as ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov, cellist Yo Yo Ma, Arthur Miller, George Lucas, Quincy Jones, and the legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach.

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The piece is fortunate to have the great Carlos Acosta, the Cuban star who left his homeland to join the Houston Ballet, in the lead.

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