Daniel Bruce, beginning his second season as music director of the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, felt the 40-member community orchestra wanted a really substantial program — as did its audience. “And ...

For his suite “Scheherazade,” Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov was inspired by the collected tales of The Arabian Nights (“One Thousand and One Nights”). While he originally included titles to ...

Mussorgsky’s “Khovanshchina” has been added onto by Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky and Shostakovich. Now, another composer gets to have his say. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Reporting from Salzburg, Austria ...

In its full nationalistic stride, the Soviet Union last week got around to honoring the man who did more than any other to make Russian music Russian—genial, bush-bearded Nikolai Andreievich ...

The music of Rimsky-Korsakov and eye value of brilliant color give Song of Scheherazade entertainment elements not otherwise found in the fluffy, ineptly directed and played story. Score contains 10 ...

What a magical night! The dancing was spectacular; the choreography was detailed, fresh, and fascinating; and the orchestra — well, the orchestra made the show! In the program, it says this is “State ...

Count Nikolai has shared a rare glimpse inside one of the Danish royal family's former residences. The 25-year-old model and business school graduate posted a series of snaps from Schackenborg Castle, ...

A double bill performance of ‘Scheherazade’ and ‘The Firebird’ will open State Street Ballet’s 30th year. (Courtesy photo) “Scheherazade,” premiered by State Street Ballet in 2014, and “The Firebird,” ...

In 1873, Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky moved in a new artistic direction when he produced a springtime fairytale based on Slavic folk stories and rituals at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.

Rimsky-Korsakov’s third opera, premiered in 1882, The Snowmaiden overflows with abundant musical riches – you can’t really miss the musical debt the composer’s star pupil, Stravinsky, owed his master ...

In 1888, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov turned the collection of Middle Eastern and Indian Tales known as The Thousand and One Nights into music with hisScherezade. It’s a work that the composer describes as ...