ISMENE BROWN: This is an unknown Tchaikovsky for most people. FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO, director: Yes, it’s a comic opera by Tchaikovsky whom you don’t immediately think of as the great comic composer. It's ...

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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 ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Britain's Royal Opera House will stage a rarely performed Tchaikovsky opera over the Christmas period which director Francesca Zambello called the Russian composer's "best ...

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Climbing out of COVID was hard enough for Skylark Opera Theatre without losing its imaginative artistic director, Bob Neu, to the Utah Symphony and Opera. But its coming-out party was nevertheless set ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Even if you aren’t a classical music fan or actively listen to Tchaikovsky’s music, you’ve absolutely heard his compositions.