Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, beloved by Egyptian audiences, will be performed by the Cairo Symphony Orchestra at the Cairo Opera House on Saturday 28 May, along with Elgar's famous cello concerto ...

To open this program, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA welcomes Spanish harpist Cristina Montes Mateo. She is featured in a challenging 20th-century piece, the “Concerto Capriccio” by the Catalan ...

Chattanooga's Tivoli Theater was filled to near capacity on Thursday evening to hear the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra perform a varied and highly engaging program that featured one of the most ...

The composer's early life as a sailor informed his evocative music for Sinbad and other tales from the Arabian Nights. I want to tell you a story…but there’s more to this tale than words! It’s a story ...

MINSK, 22 February (BelTA) - The Bolshoi Theater of Belarus will take part in the Rimsky-Korsakov Day, an international festival to mark the composer's 180th anniversary, BelTA learned from the ...

Get all the top news & discounts for Classical Music & beyond. As the New York Times observes, since its inception nearly three decades ago, "the Bard Music Festival has managed more than its fair ...

Hear two selections from 'Scheherazade' conducted by Marin Alsop's mentor, Leonard Bernstein (leading the New York Philharmonic in 1959). For centuries, composers have tried to spin tales in music. My ...

The music of Rimsky-Korsakov and eye value of brilliant color give Song of Scheherazade entertainment elements not otherwise found in the fluffy, ineptly directed and played story. Score contains 10 ...

Bedtime stories took on a new meaning for Scheherazade. Her husband, the Sultan, had the nasty habit of marrying a woman at night and killing her in the morning. So Scheherazade thought up a plan.