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The Eifman Ballet founder and artistic director Boris Eifman made his first visit to Shanghai during the 23rd China Shanghai ...

HGO deliver a glorious production of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece Eugene Onegin about a boy who rejects a girl then regrets it for the rest of ...

Reading classic Russian literature in the original language you can find some weird words ending with '-s'. “Извольте-с”, “да ...

I am often dismayed by directors' attempts to do something original, changing the time, place and even the plot of operas in the name of modernity and a misplaced passion for relevance, but ...

Liv Tyler is an American actress and former child model who has a net worth of $50 million. Liv Tyler is best known for her performance as Elf maiden Arwen Undómiel in the "Lord of the Rings ...

(Photo: Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera) We need Beethoven. Especially the 9th Symphony with Schiller’s Ode to Joy. “Freude, schöner Götterfunken/Tochter aus Elysium,/Wir betreten ...

As we see all too often, an opera director can easily fall into the trap of over-thinking a new production and that is what seems to have happened in Fidelio at the Royal Opera House. Beethoven's ...

Thus, a dialogue in verse began between the clergyman and the poet. And, soon, Pushkin’s response appeared in the ‘Literary Gazette’: In the sacred horror of the poet.” Icon painting ...