The Tale of Tsar Saltan | Trailer

→ The titles of some operas are in themselves sufficient to capture the imagination. For the centenary of Pushkin’s birth in 1899, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov drew inspiration from one of his celebrated fairy tales and composed a delightfully imaginative opera, with the ’Flight of the Bumblebee’ as instant hit. The work is ’Once Upon A Time’ story in song, where the composer’s gift for melody and orchestration combines perfectly with the poet’s often absurd humour and overflowing imagin