That novel is now an opera, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and opening the house’s new season Sunday evening. (The ...

Music is a magnet for outside influences, and Sephardic Jews had plenty of them. After their expulsion from the Iberian ...

It would be hard to imagine a festival opening in a more unassuming fashion than this one, with a single singer humming ...

He didn’t stop there; another highlight of Mendelssohn’s lifelong Bach campaign was a recital of the old composer’s works on ...

Dudamel knows the Ives symphonies, having recorded a solid but unremarkable set with the LA Philharmonic for Deutsche ...

Noting that his audience probably comprised everything from cognoscenti of counterpoint to people hearing their first ...

Early September in New York City means pianist Taka Kigawa strides onto the stage at (le) poisson rouge, sits at the Yamaha ...

The big event at Lincoln Center this summer is the Run Amoc* festival, produced by the American Modern Opera Company. More than opera, the festival will cover instrumental performances and dance ...

Yuja Wang performed all five Rachmaninoff piano concertante works with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra Saturday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Long before this year’s ...

Pierre-Laurent Aimard performed music of Ligeti and others at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee 1. Pierre-Laurent Aimard in music of Ligeti, Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy. This concert was a perfect ...

Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera It was a long trek, but Dead Man Walking finally made it the last mile to the ...