David Stout and cast in Grange Park’s staging of Mazeppa - Alastair Muir Surrey’s finest fizz – courtesy of nearby vineyard Greyfriars – is the usual tipple of choice at Grange Park Opera, but on a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. No young director could get away with a production as “classical” as this. It would be reckoned an ...

In Tchaikovsky's opera "Eugene Onegin," which opened Tuesday night at the Kennedy Center, a shy young thing named Tatiana reads too many romance novels and, not surprisingly, falls foolishly and ...

At bottom, the work is a gripping study in the eternal conflict between love and politics. Forget Liszt’s symphonic poem about the cuckolding philanderer tied naked to a galloping horse. Tchaikovsky’s ...

A passionate love doomed to fail in politically unstable times. In Mazeppa, Tchaikovsky shows us with great emotional intensity the destructive power of a love that tries to assert itself against all ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa abounds in glorious melodies, thoughtful characterisations, rousing set-pieces, wrenching ...

The drink is a chaser for Mazeppa, who has already sampled white powder from a plastic bag hidden in an oversized plush teddy bear. The eponymous anti-hero of Tchaikovsky’s lesser-known opera (1884) ...

Based on historical fact, Mazeppa was a regional leader who rose up against Tsar Peter the Great in the hope of freeing his country from Russian rule. Tchaikovsky adds in Mariya, Mazeppa's goddaughter ...

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