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Scheherazade enraptures the senses and consumes the soul. A visual feast of exotic scenery and costumes showcase Dennis Spaight's sensual choreography. Nickolai Rimsky-Korsakov's sweeping dramatic ...

At WSHU we like to think of ourselves as great storytellers, but we’ve got nothing on Scheherazade! Rimsky-Korsakov turns her 1,001 cliff-hangers into a musical page-turner. Follow every twist and ...

Betrayed by his former wife, King Shahriyar vows to marry, love and then behead a new bride each night, never to be betrayed again. Having murdered thousands of women, he encounters the beautiful and ...

Bedtime stories took on a new meaning for Scheherazade. Her husband, the Sultan, had the nasty habit of marrying a woman at night and killing her in the morning. So Scheherazade thought up a plan.