For which Korsakov and his fitful dramaturgy are mostly, though ultimately not entirely, to blame. Unlike Musorgsky's operas and Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, which tend of late to have been relocated to ...

Reading the novels of Dostoevsky is like undergoing a nervous breakdown in which you can’t stop turning the pages. Couple that with the equally extravagant emotions of grand opera and you will get an ...

Paul Curran was faced with a choice in approaching Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar’s Bride: to present the work as an historical drama in the time of Ivan the Terrible, or to update it to a modern ...