Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule In the year that Tchaikovsky gave up his office ... St Petersburg Academy of Arts by refusing to paint the classical subject stipulated for an ...

In my own work, I have found that many professional artists—an unusually anxious group—seek relief from their affliction by ...

“Iolanta” shared its premiere, in December of 1892, with a ballet you may have heard of, “The Nutcracker.” Of Tchaikovsky’s music, that score’s only competitor as a hatcher of earworms is “The 1812 ...

From an inauspicious childhood in a Ural Mountain mining town, Tchaikovsky grew up to become one of the most ... The Russia of the composer existed only in his art. Current Friends of PUL members are ...