One of the peskier questions in the classical music world: Does lesser-known mean lesser? In short: Is repertory obscurity deserved, or in any case earned? New recordings of seldom-heard music by one ...

Everyone's on the run in "The Queen of Spades," the feverish and absorbing Tchaikovsky opera that opens the San Francisco Opera Summer Festival. Nannies and neurotic partygoers, card sharks and ...

On The Queen of Spades at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. “Enough of this nonsense,” the elderly Countess commands in Act II of Tchaikovsky’s 1890 opera The Queen of Spades. She is referring to ...

Joan of Arc occupies a special place in the hearts of New Orleanians. As one of the patron saints of France, the former mother country of Louisiana, her heroism in battle and the morale she inspired ...

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Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" is a story of strong emotion accommodating itself, painfully but with resigned acceptance, to external reality. Dreams of romantic love prove untenable, or merely ...

Fans of Tchaikovsky classics like The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty will not want to miss the next production in the 2018-2019 season of Michigan Opera Theatre. Eugene Onegin, based on ...