Based on historical fact, Mazeppa was a regional leader who rose up against Tsar Peter the Great in the hope of freeing his country from Russian rule. Tchaikovsky adds in Mariya, Mazeppa's goddaughter ...

Recently the Bolshoi Theatre presented Tchaikovsky's three acts opera "Mazeppa", based on Pushkin's poem "Poltava", part of cultural legacy of Mazeppa. Pushkin took some creative freedom in order to ...

David Stout and cast in Grange Park’s staging of Mazeppa - Alastair Muir Surrey’s finest fizz – courtesy of nearby vineyard Greyfriars – is the usual tipple of choice at Grange Park Opera, but on a ...

Tchaikovsky's powerful romantic opera, 'Mazeppa', is likely to be better appreciated at its Irish premiere this weekend than it is in the composer's Russian homeland, writes EILEEN BATTERSBY FEW ...

I have found so many of Peter Stein's recent productions thuddingly dull and drearily slow that I can't say I felt a dire need to see what he had done with Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, staged by the Opera ...

Your reviewer (Life & Arts, June 17) says that there has not been a production of Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed opera Mazeppa by a UK company “since the headline-grabbing ‘chainsaw’ staging by ...

Musicologist David Trippet skilfully reconstructs a Liszt opera fragment, illustrating the composer’s fertile musical mind Received wisdom has been that Liszt wrote only one opera, and that it’s not ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest USSR news every morning. There is the potentially mighty Bolshoi in Moscow. There’s the Mariinsky, Valery Gergiev’s sometimes happy ...

At bottom, the work is a gripping study in the eternal conflict between love and politics. Forget Liszt’s symphonic poem about the cuckolding philanderer tied naked to a galloping horse. Tchaikovsky’s ...

Mazeppa: Tchaikovsky gets a torture-porn makeover Grange Park’s take on the Russian’s obscure opera is bracingly staged and brilliantly sung, and even a statement of solidarity with Ukraine 11 Gift ...