Aura magic and fun filled musical epic occurs even before the curtain. The "cover" is the very same oak, the cat, the mermaid that sits on the branches. Recognizable "Initiation", but not like any ...

Based on Russian poet Alexander Pushkin's fairy tale poem of the same name. In the midst of the wedding party of Prince Ruslan and Ludmila, Ludmila is kidnapped by an evil sorcerer. Her father seeks ...

The young knight Ruslan stands up for Lyudmila and spoils the plans of her father, Prince Vladimir, to marry her daughter to one of the worthy fellows – Ragday, Ratmir or Farlaf. Lyudmila falls in ...

We’re at the wedding feast of Ruslan and Lyudmila, and everything looks as conservative as Lotfi Mansouri’s cardboard cutout staging for the Mariinsky Opera (filmed for Philips in 1995, conducted by ...

Based on a poem by Alexander Pushkin, this 1972 sci-fi fantasy about a kidnapped princess and the knight trying to rescue her was the final feature of Soviet director Aleksandr Ptushko. In Russian ...

Russian composer Mikhail Glinka chose to begin his Fairy-tale opera "Ruslan and Ludmilla" with a fast-paced overture. We'll hear conductor Hugh Wolff lead a performance with the Frankfurt Radio ...

They were already in trouble... then she turned up.

THE BASICS: Violinist Nikki Chooi plays Behzad Ranjbaran’s Violin Concerto at Kleinhans as JoAnn Falletta also conducts the BPO in Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1 and Glinka’s Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Nudity, video, puppets and an ultra-modern twist on Mikhail Glinka's folkloric romantic opera "Ruslan and Lyudmila" will be the first full production to grace the stage of Russia's ...

I went to a small gathering of opera lovers on Sunday, September 10. The group was brought together to explore Mikhail Glinka’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila. I had never even heard of this opera. As it ...