"You cross the Place de L'Alma, the city lights, the Paris bustle and enter the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées with those mundane trivial conversations. You find your seat and the audience takes its time quietening down. Evgeni Koroliov appears on the scene, gives a quick greeting and places his hands on the piano... And voila, you are instantly transported to another world ..." (Le Figaro)