The centrepiece of this Opera Gala was obviously the chance to hear Bryn Terfel sing Act 3 of Die Walküre on his home turf. But before we progressed to the main course there was a series of starters ...

Chopiniana, his 1907 “white” ballet (known in the West as Les Sylphides) (pictured right, photo V Baranovsky), can be inert, shapeless, lifeless. Indeed, it all too frequently is. Saddled with an ...

MINSK, 5 November (BelTA) – Opera stars of the Mariinsky Theater Natalia Tymchenko and Vladimir Galouzine will perform in Minsk on 24 November, BelTA learned from senior editor of the information ...

Remember, remember the fifth of November. That’s the date a year from now when the nation’s Wagner enthusiasts will descend on Birmingham for one of the big events of the UK-Russia Year of Culture: a ...

Valery Gergiev, an ally of Vladimir V. Putin, is set to conduct in Western Europe for the first time since institutions there cut ties over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. By Javier C. Hernández and ...