Hear the Dallas Symphony Orchestra perform pieces from Ravel, Prokofiev and Mussorgsky. The Dallas Symphony Orchestra led by music director Fabio Luisi performs nearly two dozen classical concerts per ...

It’s Boris Godunov, but not as we know it. Gone is the grandeur and melodrama, the uprising, the fountains, dancing and the female lead. Even the music is different. As you may have guessed, this is ...

Mussorgsky’s unfinished, sprawling epic Khovanshchina – best translated, with a touch of irony, as “The Khovansky To-Do” – received a superb revival at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, in a performance ...

The version of Khovanshchina that Mussorgsky left behind when he died was as messy as the history it depicts. He began working on the opera in 1872, the bicentennial of Peter the Great’s birth. For ...

Paul Plishka, a powerful bass with a ready smile and hearty laugh who sang 1,672 performances at the Metropolitan Opera over 51 years, has died. He was 83. Plishka died Monday at a hospice in ...

Sweetened arrangements of his works ensured the Russian composer’s afterlife – but left him hiding in plain sight. By Phil Hebblethwaite In late 1877, at the height of his fame, Tchaikovsky was asked ...

Since their closure in 2020 due to the coronavirus, American opera houses have been struggling to regain their financial footing—and their audiences. Most have reduced the number of performances they ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It was Russia’s Jonestown, but on repeat: 17th-century Old Believers — Christians who broke with the Russian ...

The history of Modest Mussorgsky’s opera Khovanshchina is fascinating and complex. Mussorgsky started the project already in 1872 while still working on the opera Boris Godunov. The composer began a ...

If you want to go to a concert in Kharkiv these days, you have to know who to ask. In Ukraine's second city, just 40 kilometres from the Russian border, mass gatherings have been banned since the ...

It's 1598: tsar Fyodor dies and guards and priests force the crowd to beg Boris to become tsar of Russia. Finally, the coronation takes place in the Kremlin's cathedral square in an imposing ceremony ...

On the season-opening performance of Mussorgsky’s Boris Goduunov at La Scala, Milan. “We are against cancel culture,” said the La Scala general director Dominique Meyer in laudable defense of his ...