Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was a Russian composer of the romantic period, whose works are among the most popular music in the classical repertoire. He was the first Russian composer whose music made a ...

You'd think Russia would welcome plans to produce the country's first major film about Pyotr Tchaikovsky. But Kirill Serebrennikov, a prominent Russian filmmaker, has said he's given up securing ...

The San Diego Symphony announced Thursday the removal of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's famous "1812 Overture" from their end-of-season concert on Aug. 26. The work was a state commission ...

If there ever was a theme song for gratuitous explosions, it might just be composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, specifically the several-minute long finale which is a who’s who and ...

Cannes: Russian dissident Kirill Serebrennikov arranges a feverish melodrama around the woman who suffered classical music's worst marriage. It’s hard to imagine that anyone could make another movie ...

Not only was revered Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky gay, he also wasn't ashamed. At least, not nearly as much as historians and biographers had always led us to believe. That Tchaikovsky ...

Vladimir Putin has weighed in on the sexuality of composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, which is only in dispute because Russia has become increasingly homophobic, unwilling to admit that some of its greatest ...