"Evgeny Vladimirovich called the girl Marfa," said Anton Hetman, director of the Novaya Opera. — He dreamed of putting Rimsky ...

If all had gone according to plan, Chicago Opera Theater would have presented a rare performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Kashchej the Immortal” over the weekend. But the coronavirus pandemic has forced ...

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On the surface the genre of the lullaby in art music seems to have a limited purpose. In instrumental music, particularly piano works, and in song literature, individual lullabies act as quaint ...

The Tsar's Bride is an opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. It was the tenth opera the composer wrote. The words were written by Il’ya Tyumenev who based the story on a book called “The Tsar’s Bride" by ...

‘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 ...

Long before “Amadeus” there was “Mozart and Salieri,” Rimsky-Korsakov’s one-act opera about the fierce — and in this telling, fatal — rivalry between the two 18th century composers. It’s a work more ...

Unless you’re a world expert in Russian opera, you’re unlikely to have stumbled across either of the one-act operas by Rimsky-Korsakov that make up the fine double bill on offer from Island City Opera ...