Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Rimsky-Korsakov’s penultimate work counts as one of the great operatic mysteries. It fascinates Russophiles and ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Classical Music & beyond. As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the Bard Music Festival has managed more than its fair ...

‘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 ...

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. >> This year’s 15th annual Bard SummerScape festival will be a celebration 19th-century Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the college announced on Monday. The seven ...

It's been a good year for conductor Marin Alsop. She's coming out with a series of Brahms recordings with the London Symphony, and she's been busy guest conducting. We hear her leading with the German ...

On Saturday, 11 February, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Sergey Rachmaninoff (Rachmaninov) and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no.3 (often referred to as ...

Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve, based on a short story by Gogol, centres on the love of the blacksmith Vakula for the rich farmer's daughter Oksana, who mockingly requires him to obtain for her the ...

Storytellers of the Middle East have been retelling the tales of Sinbad and Aladdin. But according to legend, the first was a young bride named... Rimsky-Korsakov Lets the Symphony Tell the Story ...

Modest Mussorgsky was born 175 years ago, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 170 years ago. The two composers were contemporaries and companions, but also opposites. Their friendship: a stroke of good ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Today, Opera San José launches its 2021-22 season with Nikolai ...

Said to have been caused by careless builders, a fire at Rimsky-Korsakov’s estate has done untold damage, destroying thousands of artefacts belonging to the 19th-century Russian composer. This weekend ...

Donald Macleod surveys the life and work of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Rimsky-Korsakov’s music is filled with lush orchestration and hints of orientalism and folk music. These elements and his role as a ...