Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin dies aged 92: Bolshoi

Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin, whose work included famed ballets such as "Anna Karenina" and "Carmen Suite", died at the age of 92.

The Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre has called his loss an "enormous tragedy". Shchedrin, husband of late ballet legend Maya Plisetskaya, was "one of the greatest contemporary geniuses", whose "operas, ballets and symphonies are played on the world's greatest stages", the theatre said in a statement.