Alexander Vassiliev

Sergei S. Prokofiev's monumental setting of Leo N. Tolstoy's epic novel, War and Peace. The compose…

Tsar Saltan marries the youngest of three sisters, having heard that it is her dearest wish to pres…

From the Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, a comic-fantasy opera in four acts and seven scenes, with a lib…

Posthumously premiered in 1930, From the House of the Dead derives from Dostoevsky’s autobiographic…

‘A beautiful song – a shame that it shows such disrespect to the Mayor!’ This remark from the score…

A comic-fantastic opera by Tchaikovsky, also known as Cherevichki. In a small Ukrainian village, th…

Live from ROH 2009, TV relay 1/12/2009.

Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, a lurid tale of sex, murder, and corruption, premiered in 1…

Two Idiots. One bag of cash. A whole lot of dead guys.