Shostakovich lived under constant threat. One wrong note could end his career — or his life. His music carried hidden ...

The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala cheered the season premiere of Dmitry Shostakovich's "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk '' ...

The gala crowd at Milan's Teatro alla Scala cheers the season premiere of Shostakovich's 'Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk,' an opera ...

Shostakovich’s career was shaped by fear as much as genius. After early works angered Stalin, he lived under constant threat, writing coded dissent into his music while publicly conforming to Soviet ...

Hyderabad, Nov 6 (UNI) In a crackdown on narcotics trafficking, the Rajendranagar Police, along with the Special Operations Teams (SOT) of Rajendranagar and Madhapur zones, on Thursday busted an ...

Though Jean-Michel Basquiat was a sensation in his lifetime, it was thirty years after his death that one of his pieces fetched a record price of $110.5 million. Stephen Smith explores the artist's ...

THIS wonderfully urgent new piece by Sydney Chamber Opera takes up the central tension of one of the most interesting times in 20th-century art and politics — when for the first and last time ...

Music maestro and Rajya Sabha MP R. Ilaiyaraaja, on Sunday (September 14, 2025), said he would certainly fulfil Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin’s request to set the Sangam literary works to ...