Plushenko and a Puccini violin solo

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The violin solo is from  Puccini’s Tosca,  a perfect fit, since the acoustics of those large rinks make a mess of orchestra music.

Watch the blue spotlight racing after him like a butterfly net

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trying to catch the butterfly,

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and almost got him:

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but he escaped

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Yet here he is, more static, watching results or maybe his trainer’s video at his rink back home in Russia:

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and here again looking like some Ivan the Terrible in an Eisenstein film:

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Winamp has a good portrait shot of him on one of their skins:

The video and the stills are from the 2006 Torino show at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9B4CBcFlYw

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