On Feb. 28, 2026, the Salzburg Landestheater premiered Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin. Armenian-American soprano ...

Join Tom and Dominic as they explore the life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Somehow, over the past half-century and with hardly anyone noticing, the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has become as integral to the Fourth of July as George Washington and ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by Nikolai Kuznetsov Oil on canvas, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky by Nikolai Kuznetsov We are born, and for a while at least we are at the centre of the ...

Donald Macleod explores the conflicted relationships and mysteries in the life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Donald begins this week’s episode by looking at Tchaikovsky’s early years as a civil servant ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a famous Russian composer of symphony, opera, ballet, instrumental, chamber and song is celebrating his 170th birthday today and Google has a special logo up for it. The ...

Anybody with a child who has ever studied ballet is inevitably in a close, intimate relationship with Tchaikovsky – born on 7 May 1840. Maybe too close. Inevitably this connection centres on the music ...

However, he was initially educated for a career in the civil service, and his first job was as an assistant in the Ministry of Justice. Tchaikovsky then enrolled in the Saint Petersburg Conservatory ...

One of the peskier questions in the classical music world: Does lesser-known mean lesser? In short: Is repertory obscurity deserved, or in any case earned? New recordings of seldom-heard music by one ...