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Compared with previous seasons, recent concerts by the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center were refreshingly casual, but also more mixed. With a new name and a new music director, Lincoln [...]

Compared with previous seasons, recent concerts by the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center were refreshingly casual, but also more mixed. With a new name and a new music director, Lincoln [...]

Meyerbeer, one of the 19th century’s most popular composers, is out of fashion today. But his work is receiving a rare revival at Bard College. Giacomo Meyerbeer was the toast [...]

Byline: Oussama Zahr Davóne Tines plays Paul Robeson in a solo show on Little Island that weaves together the words and music of this American hero to tell his story. [...]

Davóne Tines plays Paul Robeson in a solo show on Little Island that weaves together the words and music of this American hero to tell his story. ''God gave me [...]

Strauss had seemingly impossible standards for a soprano in ''Salome.'' But Davidsen, making her role debut in Paris, is exactly what he intended. Richard Strauss's criteria for the ideal interpreter [...]

Strauss had seemingly impossible standards for a soprano in “Salome.” But Davidsen, making her role debut in Paris, is exactly what he intended. Richard Strauss’s criteria for the ideal interpreter [...]

Renée Fleming, Kelli O'Hara and Joyce DiDonato reprised their roles in Kevin Puts's adaptation of the award-winning novel and film. Kevin Puts's ''The Hours,'' which had its stage premiere at [...]

Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato reprised their roles in Kevin Puts’s adaptation of the award-winning novel and film. Kevin Puts’s “https://www.metopera.org/season/2023-24-season/the-hours/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw_-GxBhC1ARIsADGgDjt88fMSML9EBauNn4Q7k0ogm_HGVN-Ehct1BTSwaVY_2WnGBqxXiU4aAim8EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds,” which had its stage premiere at the [...]

Dudamel, the New York Philharmonic's incoming music and artistic director, stepped in after a guest conductor fell ill. It was lucky that Gustavo Dudamel was in town. On April 20, [...]

The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop. On Tuesday night, the Metropolitan Opera continued to [...]

The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop. On Tuesday night, the Metropolitan Opera continued to [...]

In a program of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, a guest conductor coaxes a sumptuous sincerity from the orchestra's musicians. In a thrilling concert of Russian staples on Friday night, the conductor [...]

The tenor sang the role of Ruggero in a revival of Puccini's opera that was performed with such restraint, it verged on overly careful. The revival of Nicolas Joël's Art [...]

The tenor sang the role of Ruggero in a revival of Puccini’s opera that was performed with such restraint, it verged on overly careful. The revival of Nicolas Joël’s Art [...]

On Friday, the pianist Mitsuko Uchida and the tenor Mark Padmore illuminated the bleakness of Schubert's genre-defining song cycle at Zankel Hall. It was a performance of hard-won wisdom. When [...]

On Friday, the pianist Mitsuko Uchida and the tenor Mark Padmore illuminated the bleakness of Schubert’s genre-defining song cycle at Zankel Hall. It was a performance of hard-won wisdom. When [...]

Bartlett Sher's middling production returned to the Metropolitan Opera, with a glorious Benjamin Bernheim and Nadine Sierra in the title roles. Sometimes you just need a few great singers. Two [...]

Bartlett Sher’s middling production returned to the Metropolitan Opera, with a glorious Benjamin Bernheim and Nadine Sierra in the title roles. Sometimes you just need a few great singers. Two [...]

For his latest Carnegie Hall appearance, Levit played solo piano transcriptions of symphonic works by Mahler and Beethoven. Igor Levit, a pianist of awe-inspiring insight and redoubtable technique, decided to [...]

In a revival of Franco Zeffirelli's lavish production, the conductor Oksana Lyniv led a performance that transcended the gilded stage dressing. Puccini's ''Turandot,'' a verismo opera set in a fabled [...]

In a revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s lavish production, the conductor Oksana Lyniv led a performance that transcended the gilded stage dressing. Puccini’s “Turandot,” a verismo opera set in a fabled [...]

In his debut on the main Carnegie stage, Olafsson gave a spectacular reading of Bach's ''Goldberg'' Variations. On Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall, the pianist Vikingur Olafsson's performance of Bach's [...]

In his debut on the main Carnegie stage, Olafsson gave a spectacular reading of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. On Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall, the pianist https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/02/07/Vikingur-Olafsson-Piano-0800PM of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations [...]

Over consecutive evenings, the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra performed Mahler's works on programs with star sopranos. Gustav Mahler had a near-death experience between the composition of [...]

Byline: Oussama Zahr With neither encores nor speeches, this ensemble presented a subtly clever, cogent and complete pair of concerts at Carnegie Hall. The conductor Franz Welser-MÜst is a man [...]

With neither encores nor speeches, this ensemble presented a subtly clever, cogent and complete pair of concerts at Carnegie Hall. The conductor Franz Welser-Möst is a man of few words. [...]

Surveys of works by Helvi Leiviska and Louis Wayne Ballard, as well as a restored version of ''Cavalleria Rusticana,'' are among the highlights. Leiviska: Orchestral Works Vol. 1 Lahti Symphony [...]

Mozart's opera, tailored to families in this staging, is big on spectacle and let's-put-on-a-show verve. What shines? Kathryn Lewek as Queen of the Night. The evolution of Julie Taymor's production [...]

Mozart’s opera, tailored to families in this staging, is big on spectacle and let’s-put-on-a-show verve. What shines? Kathryn Lewek as Queen of the Night. The evolution of Julie Taymor’s production [...]

Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances was the highlight of a program that also included the New York debut of Bryce Dessner's evocative Concerto for Two Pianos. On Thursday, the New York Philharmonic [...]

Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances was the highlight of a program that also included the New York debut of Bryce Dessner’s evocative Concerto for Two Pianos. On Thursday, the New York Philharmonic [...]

In back-to-back programs, the orchestra presented concertos by Beethoven and Benjamin Britten. The violin concertos by Beethoven and Benjamin Britten are as alike as they are different, and over the [...]

The conductor Susanna Mälkki led a program centered on Ligeti's Piano Concerto, propelled by the soloist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. On Thursday, the conductor Susanna Mälkki led the New York Philharmonic at [...]

The conductor Susanna Mälkki led a program centered on Ligeti’s Piano Concerto, propelled by the soloist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. On Thursday, the conductor Susanna Mälkki led the New York Philharmonic at [...]

Planned over a year ago, Handel's ''Israel in Egypt'' was presented while the Israel-Hamas war unfolds in the Middle East. Handel is not a composer typically associated with controversy, but [...]

Kate Lindsey, accompanied by the pianist Justina Lee, programmed cycles of life, love and creation by Schumann and Fauré. At her recital at the Park Avenue Armory on Monday night, [...]

Kate Lindsey, accompanied by the pianist Justina Lee, programmed cycles of life, love and creation by Schumann and Fauré. At her recital at the Park Avenue Armory on Monday night, [...]

Byline: Oussama Zahr The orchestra's former conductor - now its music director emeritus for life - opened Carnegie Hall's season with a two-night engagement. When Riccardo Muti stepped down from [...]

The orchestra's former conductor -- now its music director emeritus for life -- opened Carnegie Hall's season with a two-night engagement. When Riccardo Muti stepped down from the Chicago Symphony [...]

The company's opening week included performances of ''Nabucco'' and the Requiem. This week, the Metropolitan Opera featured one of its most reliable stars in back-to-back shows: its chorus. It just [...]

George Walker's Sinfonias, a new take on Monteverdi's ''Vespers'' and a Sphinx Virtuosi debut are among the highlights. 'Songs for Our Times' Sphinx Virtuosi (Deutsche Grammophon) This album, the Sphinx [...]

Davidsen, a true dramatic soprano, was the rare singer whose first New York recital came at the Metropolitan Opera House. When Lise Davidsen sang the first four notes of Elisabeth's [...]

Teatro Nuovo's concerts of Donizetti's ''Poliuto'' and the Ricci brothers' ''Crispino e la Comare'' delight with historically informed singing. Opera fandom is often built around a preoccupation -- zealous, territorial, [...]

Byline: Oussama Zahr After a triumphant house debut in 2019, the bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny brought power and clarity to the title role in 'The Flying Dutchman.' On Tuesday night, four [...]

After a triumphant house debut in 2019, the bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny brought power and clarity to the title role in ''The Flying Dutchman.'' On Tuesday night, four years after being [...]