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 ...
"Evgeny Vladimirovich called the girl Marfa," said Anton Hetman, director of the Novaya Opera. — He dreamed of putting Rimsky ...
The title "Mlada" may be obscure, but many of the piece's musical and dramatic elements are apt to be familiar to listeners. Rimsky-Korsakov's extravagantly fanciful 1892 opera, which forms the climax ...
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 ...
1 Washington National Opera Announces Plans to Leave the Kennedy Center 2 Post Kennedy Center Split, Washington National Opera Sets Stephen Schwartz Hosted WEST SIDE STORY Gala & More Today, Opera San ...
‘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 ...
The idea that Italian opera composer Antonio Salieri poisoned Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart out of envy did not, in fact, originate with Peter Schaffer’s 1979 play and subsequent 1984 film ...
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