Paolo Silveri as 'Boris Godunov' in the opera of the same name by Musorgsky, January 8, 1949 Credit: Photo: Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Getty Images All national schools must to some extent emerge ...

Forecast: Opera fans, singers and general music buffs will want this book for their collections.

Bravo to Hyperion for correctly translating “Kartinki s vystavki” as “Pictures from an Exhibition” rather than the ubiquitous “at”. It perhaps makes little fundamental difference, but equally there is ...

Heino Eller was described as the ‘Estonian Sibelius’ in the first decades of the last century. Predictably, the career of this versatile composer, musicologist and teacher didn't thrive during the ...

Modest Musorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition creates paintings in musical form. Riccardo Muti conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra in "Bydlo" and "Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks," two movements from ...

Vick cleverly rechristens the piece Khovanskygate: A National Enquiry (for Musorgsky’s National Music Drama) and half-transplants it to modern Russia, where the Khovanskys (“say no to change”) are ...

Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov is unusual in that the murder happens before the opera has started and it remains a haunting presence throughout the evening. In Richard Jones’s new production the killing ...

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