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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...