Can you count 1,2,3,1,2,3,1,2,3 in time with the music? Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (pronounced PYOT-uhr il-YEETCH chigh-KOFF-ski) wrote some of the best known and most performed music of all time.

W hy does Eugene Onegin, the famed opera of the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, endure?It’s a curious thing. It certainly wasn’t the work that the composer was most proud of – his ...

John Suchet presents a major new eight-part series looking at the fascinating life and music of one of classical music’s most famous – and most influential – composers: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. With ...

The Grand Kyiv ballet company, comprised of dancers from the Ukrainian National Opera and Ballet Theater, will perform ...

The emotional music of Tchaikovsky, including a solo performed on a three-century-old violin, will be the centerpiece of the ...

ESO welcomes violinist Samuel Vargas Award-winning violinist Samuel Vargas joins the Elgin Symphony Orchestra to perform ...

On the evening of March 29, the Djansug Kakhidze Tbilisi Center for Music & Culture became a battleground of emotions, ...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky is an acclaimed composer of classical music who died on November 6 1893 in St Petersburg victim of an unidentified cause Following the process of musical creation of this ...

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National Ballet of Canada. Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Choreography by Karen Kain, Christopher Stowell and Robert Binet. At the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen St. W., ...