After 50 years' interval the academic Opera and Ballet Theatre in Leningrad staged Tchaikovsky's opera "The Maid of Orleans". Producer of the opera is Merited Artist I. Shlepyanov and the musical director and conductor B. Khaikin. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), was a great Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, chamber music, and a choral setting of the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy. 1945 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies