Hear two selections from 'Scheherazade' conducted by Marin Alsop's mentor, Leonard Bernstein (leading the New York Philharmonic in 1959). For centuries, composers have tried to spin tales in music. My ...

When people rhapsodize about Weird Old Portland, what they're talking about are places like Rimsky-Korsakoffee House. The 40-year-old cafe, built inside an old Craftsman home in the Buckman ...

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 ...

Valery Gergiev’s Philips recordings of Rimsky-Korsakov’s stage works, with the singers and orchestra of the Kirov Opera (as the Mariinsky in St Petersburg was still called then), remains one of the ...

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908) was a Russian composer, and a member of the group of composers known as The Five. New York's Musical Courier was not so far from the mark when it reported in 1897: ...

I well remember this production of The Tale of Tsar Saltan. In 2008, for the centenary of Rimsky-Korsakov’s death, the Mariinsky Opera brought the opera to Sadler’s Wells under the baton of Tugan ...

A retrospective of the works of Feodor Konstantin Rimsky, a Russian artist who studied in Germany during World War I and became a student street fighter who protested the German Communist uprising, ...

Nazhmiddin Mavlyanov/Aida Garifullina/Bolshoi Theatre of Russia/Timur Zangiev Champion of the Russian composer’s operas Dmitri Tcherniakov notches up another with this Bolshoi theme-park staging In ...