The Kirov Opera Festival at the Met requires some discussion of nomenclature. 1 St. Petersburg’s principal opera house, the Mariinsky, rebuilt in its present form in 1860, was baptized after one of ...

Since the Kirov Opera's last visit to the Metropolitan Opera House in 1998, the company has spawned more international stars and begun plans for a new theater back home in Russia. Valery Gergiev, its ...

Following a nonstop week of performing Wagner’s epic “Ring” and three epic Shostakovich concerts, the Kirov Opera and its orchestra, led by the indefatigable Valery Gergiev, spent day eight of the ...

COSTA MESA — The Russians are coming! And everyone’s invited towatch. On Friday, Russia’s Kirov Opera, Ballet and Orchestra will begina 17-day residency at the Orange County Performing Arts ...

NEW YORK, July 25 (UPI) -- Russia's Kirov Opera is giving Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh" its American premiere as part of the current Lincoln Center Festival ...

The Kirov Opera of St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre is an anomaly, surely the last major opera ensemble on earth with full-time resident singers performing a repertory grounded in national work.