#onthisday , September 25th 1906, Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was born in Saint Petersburg. Source: www.belcanto.ru Here we have...

#onthisday , September 24th 1909 (115 years ago) the last of Rimsky-Korsakov's fifteen operas "The Golden Cockerel" was premiered in...

#onthisday, 6th of June, 1799, Alexander Pushkin, the greatest Russian poet, was born in Moscow His works became the basis for the...

#onthisday , April 01 1873, Sergei Rachmaninoff was born. Check out our collection of diction scores and audio tutorials for...

#onthisday, 2 January 1837, Russian composer, pianist, and conductor Mily Balakirev was born in Nizhny Novgorod. #otd #balakirev #opera...

#onthisday , December 30th 1921, Prokofiev's opera L'amour des trois oranges ("The Love for Three Oranges") was premiered in Chicago....

#onthisday ,19 December 1890, Tchaikovsky's opera "The Queen of Spades" was premiered in Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg. Check out...

#otd , December 9th 1836, Glinka's opera "A Life For The Tsar" was premiered in St.Petersburg. The original text of the opera was...

#otd , December 9th 1842, Glinka's opera "Ruslan and Ludmila" was premiered in St.Petersburg. It is a fairy tale opera in 5 acts  based...

#onthisday , September 24th 1909, Rimsky-Korsakov's opera "The Golden Cockerel" was premiered in Moscow. Watch the Bolshoi Theatre...