Aquarium of Vulcan

"Touch my lips with your lips, the same way they do on Earth" commands Aelita,  Queen of Mars. The early years of Soviet...

Dmitri Shostakovich's ballet The Bolt (1931) is a riveting example of experimentation in music in the Soviet Unio...

Discoursing once more on Russian music, this time focusing on Rimsky-Korsakov's  The Golden Cockerel   (previously  Swan Lak...

First performed in Paris in 1910 by the Ballet Russe company, The Firebird is as Russian as a Faberge egg or a Matryoshka doll.  The...

The symbols of the Tetramorph, the Lion, Bull, Eagle and Angel, the collective four symbols originating from Greek astrology which ar...