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 ...

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 ...

Conductor Valery Gergiev will bring the Kirov Opera, Ballet and Orchestra to the Orange County Performing Arts Center in October 2006 to help celebrate the opening of the center’s Renee and Henry ...

Valery Gergiev and Orchestra Dominate Lady Macbeth From the Kirov For weeks we had been discussing whether to take the kids to Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, the opera now seething across the stage of the ...

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.

The New Criterion music critic Patrick J. Smith writes in with a review of the Kirov Opera at Lincoln Center. (May say that I was at Khovanshchina last Thursday and fell head first for Olga Borodina.) ...

Sitting behind the desk in his St. Petersburg office, Valery Gergiev is talking about travel again. "Ah, Air France," he says, brandishing the latest addition to his collection of frequent-flier cards ...

KIROV OPERA -- "Boris Godunov," Friday at 7:30, Saturday at 7:30 and Sunday at 1:30. Kennedy Center Opera House, 2700 F St. NW. 202-467-4600 or 800-444-1324 (TDD: 202-416-8524). "THE IN SERIES" -- ...

The American Federation of Musicians on Thursday added an unlikely voice to growing calls for reforms in the way the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service enforces restrictions on the travel ...

KIROV OPERA -- "Macbeth," Friday at 8, Sunday at 1 and 7. "Khovanshchina," Saturday at 6. Kennedy Center Opera House, 2700 F St. NW. 202/467-4600 or 800/444-1324 (TDD: 202/416-8524). Orchestras ...