Presented as a diptych in the historic performance of 1892, Iolanta and The Nutcracker are once again brought together in this Paris Opera production. In Dmitri Tcherniakov’s staging and...
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
The titles of some operas are in themselves sufficient to capture the imagination. For the centenary of Pushkin's birth in 1899, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov drew inspiration...
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya
Rimsky-Korsakov’s grandest opera The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya is often labelled ‘the Russian Parsifal’. Composed in the early...
Carmen
Free she was born and free she will die. This sometime cigar-maker, sometime smuggler with something of the sorceress about her is often in love...
Sadko
The Time Has Come Premiere of Sadko at the Bolshoi Theatre took place on 24 October 1906. Since then, it almost permanently remained in the...