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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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera's revival of Tchaikovsky’s *The Queen of Spades*, which opened on Friday, May 23, 2025, offered a visually opulent and musically ambitious evening, though not without its ...

Aaron Cawley brings a prodigious intensity to Pushkin’s antihero Hermann, while a fine ensemble and Douglas Boyd on the podium help drive the innovative score forward Garsington’s production of The ...

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