KYIV, Ukraine — Last year, President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russian and Ukrainian are dialects of the same language, somehow forced into separate languages by Europe in order to undermine Russian ...

Anna Netrebko’s return to Covent Garden was always going to be contentious. The Russian soprano, 53, was pictured in 2014 bringing gifts to Russian-armed separatists in Crimea. Two years earlier, she ...

More than three years into Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, many Western cultural institutions that had distanced themselves from Russian artists as a gesture of solidarity with Ukraine are ...

MOSCOW. Oct 31 (Interfax) - Days of Russian culture in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, the events will take place on November 3, the Russian Culture ...

LONDON — Dozens of Ukrainians and their supporters have demonstrated outside the Royal Opera House in London to protest a performance by Russian soprano Anna Netrebko. Protesters outside Thursday’s ...

If you go to performances at the Ohio Theatre, you are likely to hear the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky pretty regularly. Not only is the Russian composer a favorite of Columbus Symphony Music ...

In Philadelphia, in Manhattan and over the radio, Conductor Leopold Stokowski had his Philadelphia Orchestra play all-Russian programs last week. Stravinsky, Skriabin, Prokohev and Moussorgsky are ...

The Metropolitan Opera House with American Ballet Theater banner. Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York City. (Ajay Suresh/Wikimedia Commons) MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal judge is allowing ...

"Music made by neural networks is the music of the future," Russian opera singer Vera Kononova said MOSCOW, May 23. /TASS/. Russian opera singer Vera Kononova has become the world’s first artist to ...

From Judge Analisa Torres's decision in Netrebko v. Metropolitan Opera Ass'n, Inc.: In the [earlier order], the Court found that Netrebko did not allege direct evidence of discriminatory intent….