Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades is a first-rate example of great literature that's further enlightened when set to great music. The opera is based on a groundbreaking story by ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's Royal Opera House will stage a rarely performed Tchaikovsky opera over the Christmas period which director Francesca Zambello called the Russian composer's "best ...

There is a moment in Eugene Onegin when you forget you're at an opera at all. At the beginning of the second act, Lensky wanders over to a lonely bench awaiting a duel with his best friend, the ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

Joan of Arc occupies a special place in the hearts of New Orleanians. As one of the patron saints of France, the former mother country of Louisiana, her heroism in battle and the morale she inspired ...

At the time Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as Music Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, newly knighted Sir Andrew Davis brought his distinguished East Sussex opera company ...

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Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" is a story of strong emotion accommodating itself, painfully but with resigned acceptance, to external reality. Dreams of romantic love prove untenable, or merely ...

Everyone's on the run in "The Queen of Spades," the feverish and absorbing Tchaikovsky opera that opens the San Francisco Opera Summer Festival. Nannies and neurotic partygoers, card sharks and ...

Some of the world's most renowned ballet dancers will soon be pirouetting, leaping and gliding across the stage at the Johnny Mercer Theatre. The Perm, Russia-based Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet ...