The Kirov Opera Festival at the Met requires some discussion of nomenclature. 1 St. Petersburg’s principal opera house, the Mariinsky, rebuilt in its present form in 1860, was baptized after one of ...

The New Criterion music critic Patrick J. Smith writes in with a review of the Kirov Opera at Lincoln Center. (May say that I was at Khovanshchina last Thursday and fell head first for Olga Borodina.) ...

Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews. By Trip Gabriel Among the ...

Given the human tendency to find things that are threatening also a little bit sexy, it makes perfect sense that the St. Petersburg-based Kirov Opera and Ballet has supplanted the Moscow-based Bolshoi ...

The Kirov Opera's current presentation of Mussorgsky's "Khovanshchina," which opened last night at the Kennedy Center Opera House, will not be to every taste. The libretto, fashioned by the composer ...

Valery Gergiev and Orchestra Dominate Lady Macbeth From the Kirov For weeks we had been discussing whether to take the kids to Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the opera now seething across the stage of the ...