The centrepiece of this Opera Gala was obviously the chance to hear Bryn Terfel sing Act 3 of Die Walküre on his home turf. But before we progressed to the main course there was a series of starters ...

Chopiniana, his 1907 “white” ballet (known in the West as Les Sylphides) (pictured right, photo V Baranovsky), can be inert, shapeless, lifeless. Indeed, it all too frequently is. Saddled with an ...

MINSK, 5 November (BelTA) – Opera stars of the Mariinsky Theater Natalia Tymchenko and Vladimir Galouzine will perform in Minsk on 24 November, BelTA learned from senior editor of the information ...

Remember, remember the fifth of November. That’s the date a year from now when the nation’s Wagner enthusiasts will descend on Birmingham for one of the big events of the UK-Russia Year of Culture: a ...

ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - It has been variously described as a sleek piece of modernism or an ugly shopping centre, but whatever Russians think of the exterior of St Petersburg's new Mariinsky ...

Valery Gergiev, an ally of Vladimir V. Putin, is set to conduct in Western Europe for the first time since institutions there cut ties over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. By Javier C. Hernández and ...

After delivering a somewhat mixed Das Rheingold, the Mariinsky Opera took things to another level in its performance of Die Walküre. The staging, which was positively disruptive in parts of Rheingold, ...