Russian composer Mikhail Glinka chose to begin his Fairy-tale opera "Ruslan and Ludmilla" with a fast-paced overture. We'll hear conductor Hugh Wolff lead a performance with the Frankfurt Radio ...

We begin with a tale of sorcery, epic battles, and love. This opera was inspired by the epic fairy tale poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, where the brave hero Ruslan sets out to rescue his ...

He opens the concert with Glinka’s dazzling, high-energy overture that captures the magical, adventurous spirit of his opera ...

The Hallé Orchestra is still in many ways the well honed, burnished instrument created by Sir Mark Elder over his near ...

We’re at the wedding feast of Ruslan and Lyudmila, and everything looks as conservative as Lotfi Mansouri’s cardboard cutout staging for the Mariinsky Opera (filmed for Philips in 1995, conducted by ...