Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sadko is a case in point, an opera central to the repertoire in Russia but rarely performed elsewhere. It’s a large-scale, nationalistic affair, with rousing choruses and folksong ...

You can view these performances on the website: www.operaballet.be. Opera Ballet Flanders previously made the productions Parsifal, La Juive, Rusalka and the dance performances Ma mêre l'oye and Bach ...

WHEN Kurt Schindler introduced excerpts from “Sadko” in concert form a few years ago, it seemed that this opera had suffered from neglect by the Metropolitan authorities. The music was charming, and ...

A few years ago half the U. S. was humming a teasing melody called “The Song of India.” Many a wailing tenor and shrilling soprano delivered it in cinema-houses and on radio programs. Jazzmen ...

A performer was killed during an opera at Moscow’s famous Bolshoi Theatre on Saturday in an accident that occurred during a scene change, the theater said. The 37-year-old man was performing in “Sadko ...