Even ardent opera fans may struggle to recall the story or the score for Mazeppa. Based on a poem by Pushkin, Tchaikovsky's opera has been unjustly overshadowed by his Eugene Onegin. Last staged at ...

Recently the Bolshoi Theatre presented Tchaikovsky's three acts opera "Mazeppa", based on Pushkin's poem "Poltava", part of cultural legacy of Mazeppa. Pushkin took some creative freedom in order to ...

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 ...

I have found so many of Peter Stein's recent productions thuddingly dull and drearily slow that I can't say I felt a dire need to see what he had done with Tchaikovsky's Mazeppa, staged by the Opera ...

The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center; (212) 362-6000. Next performance Friday. THERE seemed to be two productions of Tchaikovsky’s “Mazeppa” parading across the Metropolitan Opera House on Monday ...

Tchaikovsky's powerful romantic opera, 'Mazeppa', is likely to be better appreciated at its Irish premiere this weekend than it is in the composer's Russian homeland, writes EILEEN BATTERSBY FEW ...

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 ...

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 11 Gift ...