Information for Mazeppa at Grange Park Opera, West Horsley (Opera or Operetta). Romance, war, love, politics and patriotic passion, Tchaikovsky's opera has them all, expressed through glorious music. Mazepa is an ambitious Ukrainian military leader at once in thrall to and plotting against his mighty Tsarist neighbour Russia. His love for the young daughter of a local landowner is the crux of a gripping tale of revolution and betrayal.