Jeanine de Bique, Kseniia Proshina, Ismael Jordi and Airam Hernandez star in Gounod’s “Roméo et Juliette” with Florence Losseau, Travon D. Walker, and Maxim Kuzmin-Karavaev. Valentina Peleggi conducts ...

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Musorgsky Unorthodox Music: The Nursery, songs and piano works Claire Booth (soprano), Christopher Glyn (piano) Avie AV2457 65:22 mins A Swedish pianist, top choice for many international singers, ...

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 ...

September 29 and 30 mark the anniversary of one the greatest atrocities ever carried out on Soviet soil: Babi Yar. In a ravine outside of Kiev in 1941, occupying Nazi forces murdered over 33,000 Jews ...

Vsevolod Grivnov's Prince Golitsyn rebuked by Ain Anger's Dosifey The essential Slavic quality to religious chants and mass assertions of fearfulness and sorrow came from the Slovak Philharmonic ...

In a court of shadows infested with scheming voyeurs and eavesdroppers, Russian tsar Boris Godunov — ruler by circumstance — is disillusioned and desperate. Suspicion about his part in the previous ...

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 ...

It must be strange playing in the orchestra pit of an opera house. The musicians can hear the singing and the stage noise above them; if it’s a comedy, they can hear the laughter, but they can’t see ...