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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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 ...

Your reviewer (Life & Arts, June 17) says that there has not been a production of Tchaikovsky’s rarely performed opera Mazeppa by a UK company “since the headline-grabbing ‘chainsaw’ staging by ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest USSR news every morning. There is the potentially mighty Bolshoi in Moscow. There’s the Mariinsky, Valery Gergiev’s sometimes happy ...

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Truman Capote has never been so alive: first in the person of Philip Seymour Hoffman, for the 2005 biopic Capote, now in Bob Kingdom's one-man show, playing in Cork next week and then touring to ...

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 ...

Mazeppa: Tchaikovsky gets a torture-porn makeover Grange Park’s take on the Russian’s obscure opera is bracingly staged and brilliantly sung, and even a statement of solidarity with Ukraine ...

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