It's not easy, given the plot's meanderings, even with major cuts that lop off some of Rimsy-Korsakov's best music. Two of the seven major characters don't turn up until some way into Scene Two, and a ...

Opera "Snegurochka" with her poetry of pagan cult, the epic power of the merging of man and nature, divinely-ravishing anthem to beauty and love Nikolay Andreevich rimskiy-Korsakov felt his best ...

Yet its mythic, and exotic, aspects make The Snowmaiden (Snegurochka in the original Russian) a tricky proposition for a touring company on a modest budget who must run a tight, mobile ship with a ...