Three murders, a couple of floggings and sexual assaults, a suicide and the most X-rated music — yes, music — in all of opera. Even some late-night cable TV shows pale next to Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, ...

Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich died in 1975 without completing his dream of setting Anton Chekhov’s short story, “The Black Monk,” as an opera. Thanks to playwright James Glossman and musician ...

LENOX - How do you devote an entire concert to an opera that was never written? That, in essence, was the challenge the Emerson String Quartet took on with "Shostakovich and the Black Monk" at ...

Long Beach Opera returned to the desolate plains of opera-deprived Orange County on Wednesday night with a rarity in its bag. Shostakovich’s “Moscow, Cherry Town” (or “Moscow, Cheryomushki”), a comic ...

The Russian premiere of an unfinished opera by the great musician Dmitry Shostakovich was recently presented in Moscow. Orango the ape shuffles before the Palace of Soviets, to the sounds of a jeering ...