Tag Archives: Rimsky-Korsakov

Robert Tanitch reviews Scheherazade on line

Robert Tanitch reviews Scheherazade on line

The sultan’s favourite wife is caught in flagrante delicto with a Negro slave. Orientalism was in vogue and sex and violence have always been popular, Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes had a huge success wit ...
Rimsky-Korsakov’s cock-a-doodle-doo

Rimsky-Korsakov’s cock-a-doodle-doo

Robert Tanitch reviews Le Coq D’Or at London Coliseum. Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov’s rarely performed opera-ballet, deliberately silly and childish, is a pantomime romp for family audiences. It premiered ...