To celebrate the New Year, the Orchestre National de France, conductor Yutaka Sado and guitarist Thibaut Garcia offer a ...

2 Esa-Pekka Salonen to Lead Scriabin's PROMETHEUS, POEM OF FIRE with LA Phil As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the Bard Music Festival has managed more ...

The composer's early life as a sailor informed his evocative music for Sinbad and other tales from the Arabian Nights. I want to tell you a story…but there’s more to this tale than words! It’s a story ...

Unless you’re a world expert in Russian opera, you’re unlikely to have stumbled across either of the one-act operas by Rimsky-Korsakov that make up the fine double bill on offer from Island City Opera ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) is one of the group of 19th century ...

‘Amadeus,” the 1984 eight Academy Award-winning Miloš Forman film, didn’t originate the idea that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was poisoned by his mediocre colleague Antonio Salieri, nor the 1979 Tony ...

On paper, the composers that Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra featured Thursday night could be considered diametric opposites. For the leanness and classical proportions of Mozart’s ...

This is the second DVD of a Rimsky-Korsakov production from the Mariinsky theatre in St Petersburg, plugging one of the gaps left in the Rimsky cycle that Valery Gergiev began on CD for Philips in the ...

Rachmaninoff was a world-renowned pianist who toured his whole life. From a recording he made in 1929, we hear Rachmaninoff himself play Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee. And from there, we ...