<div><p>Legendary impresario Serge Diaghilev is associated above all with the Ballets Russes, but his first love was music and it was opera that he initially brought to Paris.</p><p>In 1908, a year before the dance company stormed the French capital, he mounted a dazzling production of Mussorgsky's ...

<div><p>MOSCOW (Reuters) - The 234th season of Russia's world-famous Bolshoi Theater opened on Tuesday with chaos, tragedy, betrayal and strife.</p><p>Off-stage, the plot was scarcely less dramatic.</p><p>Hours before the curtain went up on the opening night's production of Mussorgsky's ...

<div id="subtitle">Theater companies will highlight this summer's Lincoln Center 09</div><div><p>Theater companies from France, Russia, Poland, Hungary and Italy will highlight Lincoln Center 09, the city's major summer arts festival.</p><p>Artists and companies from 14 different countries will perform ...

<div><p> Boris Godunov</p><p> English National Opera</p><p> La rencontre imprevue</p><p> Guildhall School of Music and Drama</p><p> The new production of Musorgsky's most important work Boris Godunov, at English National Opera, raises ...