The title "Mlada" may be obscure, but many of the piece's musical and dramatic elements are apt to be familiar to listeners. Rimsky-Korsakov's extravagantly fanciful 1892 opera, which forms the climax ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Classical Music & beyond. As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the Bard Music Festival has managed more than its fair ...

If Cecil B. DeMille had taken it into his head to create a big-budget extravaganza on Russian-pagan themes with a score by Wagner and a host of visual and sound effects, the result might be something ...

On paper, the composers that Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featured Thursday night could be considered diametric opposites. For the leanness and classical proportions of Mozart’s ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A year ago The Tsar’s Bride made its belated debut at Covent Garden. Despite the best efforts of everyone involved, ...

Opera North delivers folklore in a factory in a rare staging of Rimsky-Korsakov’s The Snow Maiden. And a piano prize-winner’s UK debut A long, frozen winter, the surprise of spring renewal, bird song ...

For 130 years now, low-key and flying under the radar, the Friday Morning Music Club has been spreading the gospel of classical music to the Washington metropolitan area. In April alone, the club is ...

‘Amadeus,” the 1984 eight Academy Award-winning Miloš Forman film, didn’t originate the idea that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was poisoned by his mediocre colleague Antonio Salieri, nor the 1979 Tony ...

Valery Gergiev’s Philips recordings of Rimsky-Korsakov’s stage works, with the singers and orchestra of the Kirov Opera (as the Mariinsky in St Petersburg was still called then), remains one of the ...