In 1907, Kyiv Opera staged Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Cherevychky (The Slippers) for Christmas. The plot followed Nikolai Gogol’s ...

However, he was initially educated for a career in the civil service, and his first job was as an assistant in the Ministry of Justice. Tchaikovsky then enrolled in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory ...

Choreographer Sir Peter Wright has reflected on his “enduringly popular” production of The Nutcracker, which was created for ...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky was a giant of 19th century classical music. His style echoed the Westernizer-Slavophile divide among Russia’s intelligentsia, and indeed the Russian Empire as a whole, as he tried ...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky, who passed away 120 years ago, was a Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, chamber music, and a choral setting of the Russian Orthodox Divine ...

Anybody with a child who has ever studied ballet is inevitably in a close, intimate relationship with Tchaikovsky – born on 7 May 1840. Maybe too close. Inevitably this connection centres on the music ...

The Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater has presented one of the most celebrated masterpieces of world art – ...

In light of Russia's invasion into Ukraine, many westerners are understandably doing their level best to distance themselves from President Vladimir Putin and those loyal to him. But some of those ...

A New Zealand couple have spoken of their fear when they were woken up to be evacuated from their cruise ship in Russia after a fire broke out on the vessel next to them. John and Chris Burton from ...

Vladimir Putin has weighed in on the sexuality of composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, which is only in dispute because Russia has become increasingly homophobic, unwilling to admit that some of its greatest ...