Includes: Poem - Humoresque - In the style of Albeniz - Troika - and more.
A magical tour through the land of flying horses, dazzling fish and tumbling clowns highlights this magnificent Bolshoi Ballet production of Rodion Shchedrin's The Little Humpbacked Horse.Featuring th...
Seeing Tolstoy's great novel set to dance was a dream of Maya Plisetskaya, but she encountered endless difficulties in finding a choreographer either able or willing to take on the challenge. Never on...
Carmen was first set as a ballet by the famed Russian choreographer Petipa in 1845. It was based on the Mérimée novella and premiered in Madrid some thirty years before Bizet's opera was first heard....
Rodion Shchedrin is internationally recognized as the pre-eminent contemporary composer of the Russian modern school. His autobiography looks back over an eventful life and provides a variety of stimu...
The premiere of Shchedrin's famous opera, based on the novel by Nabokov, met with violent protests. No wonder: Shchedrin had brought the entire explosive power of the erotic Lolita material to the ope...
Shchedrin's concert opera 'The Enchanted Wanderer' has quickly taken a permanent place in the musical canon. Now the piano score of the successful and impressive work is being published. Deep Slavonic...