Our critic tracked one concert, from its first rehearsals to its first performance. Practice is only part of what makes this ensemble excellent. By David Allen Banned for decades in the Soviet Union ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, ...

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 ...

Shostakovich wrote a surreal opera about a nose just so we could all have our day improved by tap-dancing, life-sized body parts. And because opera is great. Imagine waking up and your nose isn’t ...

The Mariinsky Theatre launches its own label with a bold statement of intent: a complete recording of Shostakovich’s opera-satire The Nose, first performed in 1929 and still controversial. The plot is ...