Shakespeare’s words and Tchaikovsky’s music meet in season-ending program that also marks a major transition for the ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

The Cannes Film Festival has been careful to steer clear of Russian participation this year, barring “official Russian delegations” and “anyone linked to the Russian government” and also declining to ...

In light of Russia's invasion into Ukraine, many westerners are understandably doing their level best to distance themselves from President Vladimir Putin and those loyal to him. But some of those ...

They shared the same birthday —May 7 — but that was about all. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Johannes Brahms simply understood, felt and composed music very differently, and judged each other’s work ...

One of the most prolific composers of the Romantic era, Tchaikovsky's pieces such as Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty remain profoundly popular to this day. From his symphonies to his ballets, here’s a ...

Tchaikovsky was a blazingly inventive genius and brilliant orchestrator who pushed musical intensity towards its outer limits. What makes Tchaikovsky’s music so special? Tchaikovsky possessed an ...

Research by pianist Kirill Gerstein has revealed that the standardly performed version of Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto differs substantially from what the composer actually wrote. It’s a shame ...

This week we turn to the Russian composer who poured his passion and his pain into a body of works - from ballets to symphonies - that put his country on the international musical map Pyotr Ilyich ...

On the eve of an ambitious BBC retrospective, Adam Sweeting reports on the controversies that still surround the composer's death In summer 2005, the BBC launched a blitz of round-the-clock Beethoven ...