Was Tchaikovsky a tempest or a drudge? The great Russian composer of iconic works like “The Nutcracker” and the “1812 Overture” is generally thought to have lived a life of melodrama. An alcoholic and ...

Listen to how Tchaikovsky uses the celesta in “The Nutcracker,” unleashing the potential of the instrument to signal playfulness and fantasy. By Joshua Barone Photographs and Video by Vincent Tullo ...

Among the most famous of Russian composers, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) is commonly described as an artist with a tortured soul, emblematic, perhaps, of a cultural landscape filled with ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The composer’s brother Modest long wanted to collaborate. They eventually got their chance, to bring Pushkin to the opera stage. By Arya Roshanian In ...

Educator and researcher Wittkop resurfaces in this evocative debut history a long-forgotten meeting between two notable literary women of the 19th century. In the 1830s, Continue reading » The Cost of ...

All praise then to the ENB Philharmonic and its dynamic new musical director, Maria Seletskaja, who began her career as a ballet dancer in Estonia before migrating to the podium. That rare dual ...