Igor Stravinsky famously felt that “music expresses itself” — essentially, that understanding a given piece of music requires little beyond what we hear when it’s played. Which may explain why the ...

Ballet theatre attracted Igor Stravinsky throughout his life and he strove unceasingly to find new forms. The melodrama for narrator, solo tenor, chorus and dancers, dating from the composer’s ...

Igor Stravinsky’s attempt to describe his Persephone was not too illuminating: “A nose,” he said, “is not manufactured; a nose just is. Thus, too, my art.” In the case of Persephone, the nose is ...

Like many other operas, Iolanta is concerned with the transition from darkness to light: a tale of a princess who has been brought up in ignorance of her blindness. Ibn-Hakia, the Moorish physician, ...

Sean Rafferty presents a selection of music and guests from the arts world. Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule The theme representing the puppet Petrushka consists of arpeggios (broken ...

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It’s the joy of all-Stravinsky programmes – and this is the fourth major event in an ambitious 2016 festival – that so many alternative groupings are possible. The final work of last night’s “Myths” ...

This release contains performances of Tchaikovsky's one-act opera Iolanta and Stravinsky's Persephone, both staged at one of Spain's most admired opera houses.