Samuel Barber’s 1958 opera was in disrepute for decades. A remarkable new production is the latest evidence of its rightful ...

The New York company offers a stark, taxing adaptation of the composer’s 1958 work, which centers on a woman waiting for her ...

I caught up with Heartbeat Opera’s reinvention of Samuel Barber’s 1958 opera, VANESSA, to Giancarlo Menotti’s libretto, a few ...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the greatest classical American composers of the 20th century. His music is greatly loved for its rich complexity, depth of feeling, and beautiful craftsmanship.

Now that the music world has paid bicentennial tribute to Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann, it's time to sing Happy 100th Birthday to Samuel Barber. The American composer of neo-Romantic music ...

In a 1949 CBS radio interview, Barber described the piece as expressing "a child's feeling of loneliness, wonder, and lack of identity in that marginal world between twilight and sleep." With Barber's ...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) found his musical voice early on. From youth, his works were expertly wrought, sumptuously opulent but clearly of their time, and full of passion restrained somewhat by a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Johanna Keller SAMUEL BARBER’S Adagio for Strings begins softly, with a single note, a B flat, played by the violins. Two beats later the lower ...