The composer’s brother Modest long wanted to collaborate. They eventually got their chance, to bring Pushkin to the opera ...

At the Metropolitan Opera’s season premiere of Elijah Moshinsky’s production, it was the women who led, while a strong cast carried the patchwork plot.

Arsen Soghomonyan as Hermann and Sonya Yoncheva as Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Meytropolitan Opera.