Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...

At first glance, the program might be described as “contemporary conventional,” with its generous helpings of lauded present-day composers (Gabriela Ortiz and Terence Blanchard), a nod to a recent ...

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 ...

Pianist William Yang is the winner of this year’s National Chopin Competition, an event founded by the Chopin Foundation of ...

Guntram, Richard Strauss’s first opera, didn’t bomb when it premiered in Weimar in 1894. That happened with the second performance in Munich when the orchestra dubbed the opera a “scourge of God.” ...

Concerts by the Orchestra of Madrid’s Teatro Real are becoming regular events in New York. The orchestra’s appearance on Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall marked its third performance here since 2022.

At Carnegie Hall, the month of May is coming to a close with Shostakovich and Evgeny Kissin. The pianist is leading a series of concerts of the composer’s music. The second one, Wednesday night, was ...

Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, which opened Friday night as the final production of this season, has a short but notable history at the Metropolitan Opera. Its premiere house performances were ...

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There is a divide in John Adams’ opera career that’s not marked by any change in compositional style but by the departure of librettist Alice Goodman for the Anglican priesthood. Adams’ first two ...

If opera casting were a competitive sport, there would have been something unfair about the new singers the Metropolitan Opera put in front of the audience Saturday night in Le Nozze di Figaro. This ...