They are worse than American audiences. One of the people in my group answered her cell phone during the opera, I sat next to a woman whose cell phone went off, and I had to shush the couple behind me (maybe it's physically impossible to whisper in Russian?). Also they clap between arias, but I think that may be standard among all but the most German of audiences (by which I mean Wagner...).
Finally (and this is not restricted to musical audiences, as I later saw on Russian television during a fashion game show...), applause in Russia is synchronized. They all just clap a beat together. Interpret that as you will...
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