Pushkin is such a revered figure in Russia that even the very idea of creating an opera about him was contentious. As librettist Marita Phillips said ‘reducing Pushkin to a mortal can amount to ...

I am going to the opera tonight, to see Bizet’s “Carmen,” which the Met expects to be its most viewed—via live HD telecast—production yet. Some three hundred and twenty thousand people will have seen ...

Opera tells how radical killed in a duel with his wife’s suspected lover transformed Russia’s literary language From Eugene Onegin to Boris Godunov, the works of the great Romantic poet Alexander ...

“Eugene Onegin” at the Metropolitan Opera, starring Anna Netrebko as Tatyana, will be more accessible than ever before, simultaneously broadcast in 64 countries. Opera lovers are already abuzz with ...

The opera adapted from "The Fisherman and Golden Fish" by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin will hit the China National Theater from November 10 to 20. [Photo/China.com] An opera adapted from the ...

Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin, based on Pushkin’s verse novel, is usually seen as the tragedy of an unfulfilled relationship, set against a background of two irreconcilable social situations: ...

David Seidler, who wrote the Oscar-winning script for “The King’s Speech,” is adapting Alexander Pushkin’s Russian short story, “Queen of Spades.” The project, which has directer Pavel Lungin (“Tsar”) ...