Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Rimsky-Korsakov’s penultimate work counts as one of the great operatic mysteries. It fascinates Russophiles and ...

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It's been a good year for conductor Marin Alsop. She's coming out with a series of Brahms recordings with the London Symphony, and she's been busy guest conducting. We hear her leading with the German ...

Mariinsky II will host the premiere of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Golden Cockerel by stage director Anna Matison on December 25-27. On December 25 and 26 Valery Gergiev will be conducting, ...

Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve, based on a short story by Gogol, centres on the love of the blacksmith Vakula for the rich farmer's daughter Oksana, who mockingly requires him to obtain for her the ...

Say you wanted to set up a tournament bracket in which classical composers are pitted against one another in a battle over who gets the most out of an orchestra in their compositions and arrangements.

Modest Mussorgsky was born 175 years ago, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 170 years ago. The two composers were contemporaries and companions, but also opposites. Their friendship: a stroke of good ...

The Sultan Schahriar, convinced that all women are unfaithful, vowed to kill each of his wives after the first night of marriage. But one of those wives — the Sultana Scheherazade — kept herself alive ...

Donald explores Rimsky-Korsakov's relationship with the sea. What began as a childhood obsession developed into an early naval career. Donald explores what the ocean represented for Rimsky-Korsakov ...

Said to have been caused by careless builders, a fire at Rimsky-Korsakov’s estate has done untold damage, destroying thousands of artefacts belonging to the 19th-century Russian composer. This weekend ...

Donald Macleod surveys the life and work of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Rimsky-Korsakov’s music is filled with lush orchestration and hints of orientalism and folk music. These elements and his role as a ...