The Kirov Opera Festival at the Met requires some discussion of nomenclature. 1 St. Petersburg’s principal opera house, the Mariinsky, rebuilt in its present form in 1860, was baptized after one of ...

The first two nights of the Kirov Opera’s “Ring” cycle – “Das Rheingold” and “Die Walküre” – were given over the weekend before lively and intent audiences in Segerstrom Hall. Everyone seemed to have ...

Following a nonstop week of performing Wagner’s epic “Ring” and three epic Shostakovich concerts, the Kirov Opera and its orchestra, led by the indefatigable Valery Gergiev, spent day eight of the ...

The Kirov Opera of St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre is an anomaly, surely the last major opera ensemble on earth with full-time resident singers performing a repertory grounded in national work.

This autumn the British opera scene will witness an extraordinary event: St Petersburg's Kirov Opera is staging Wagner's Ring cycle at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff. Touring has become an important ...

The New Criterion music critic Patrick J. Smith writes in with a review of the Kirov Opera at Lincoln Center. (May say that I was at Khovanshchina last Thursday and fell head first for Olga Borodina.) ...

We may rejoice in the additions of his revision, we may wallow in the sumptuousness of the famous Rimsky-Korsakov reconstruction, but once heard, the seven-scene original - played without intermission ...

As reportedly happened during the Kirov Opera’s visit to Washington last year, the best performance of the group’s residency this week at the Kennedy Center was saved for last. On Sunday afternoon, ...