The title "Mlada" may be obscure, but many of the piece's musical and dramatic elements are apt to be familiar to listeners. Rimsky-Korsakov's extravagantly fanciful 1892 opera, which forms the climax ...

If Cecil B. DeMille had taken it into his head to create a big-budget extravaganza on Russian-pagan themes with a score by Wagner and a host of visual and sound effects, the result might be something ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the ...

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 ...

Nights in the Gardens of Spain' The Ocala Symphony Orchestra begins its 50th anniversary season with performances at 7:30 p.m ...

To open this program, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA welcomes Spanish harpist Cristina Montes Mateo. She is featured in a challenging 20th-century piece, the “Concerto Capriccio” by the Catalan ...

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 ...

Last week, Eric Simpson and I did a podcast, discussing the upcoming music season. Or, I should say, the second half of the season—the 2015–16 classical-music season in New York. I think of a music ...