Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov/Aida Garifullina/Bolshoi Theatre of Russia/Timur Zangiev Champion of the Russian composer’s operas Dmitri Tcherniakov notches up another with this Bolshoi theme-park staging In ...

When an opera is deconstructed – when it is given a new story, and the sets disassembled on stage – we soon begin to hear familiar music afresh. The curtain rises to the sound of the ‘sea’ music, but ...

Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko is a case in point, an opera central to the repertoire in Russia but rarely performed elsewhere. It’s a large-scale, nationalistic affair, with rousing choruses and folksong ...

It's the forgotten classical music anniversary this year: not Vaughan Williams (50 years since his death in 1958) or Olivier Messiaen (100 years since his birth) - both of whom have been firm fixtures ...