With a libretto by Nilo Cruz, the work had its world premiere at the San Diego Opera in 2022—later moving to San Francisco and Chicago’s Lyric Opera—but the Met offers an entirely new production by ...

Leon Botstein, the college president who conducts orchestras, will soon be shedding one of those roles, but he did a ...

Charles Ives had some rough things to say about what he called the “Rollos” of the world. He used that name as a stand-in for ...

If you are a La Traviata aficionado or someone new to opera, don’t let this cast slip through your fingers. La Traviata runs ...

Oppens was one of four pianists—the others were Paul Jacobs, Gilbert Kalish, and Charles Rosen—who commissioned Night ...

Carnegie Hall presents Rhiannon Giddens and assisting artists in “The Hidden Soundtrack of America,” a program of music from Africa and North America and from the 1700s to the era of minstrelsy and ...

The highlights of this year’s festival—held, as always, the first weekend in May—confirmed this, with concerts that not only ...

Musicians from Asia have excelled in Western classical music for so long now that it comes as a surprise when one of them makes news by doing so. That’s what happened when the then 27-year-old Han Kim ...

His talents for composing and conducting were soon noticed by leading conductors such as Theodore Thomas and Anton Seidl, who commissioned new works from him or hired him as an assistant. For a time, ...

The question seems like it has a simple answer that everyone knows because sonatas are everywhere in classical music. It’s ...