The transition from America’s roof to below sea level seemed not to faze the musicians at all, as music director Bahman Saless led the 42-player ensemble in his own composition, the five-minute ...

Introducing Music Before 1800’s season finale Sunday afternoon at Corpus Christi Church, artistic director Bill Barclay remarked that “world music is early music.” This is clear through the range of ...

A new tenor is in town. In her Met role debut, mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina was an equally dazzling Rosina, full of fun ...

The wordless singing of the New York Philharmonic Chorus, directed by Malcolm J. Merriweather, put a human presence in the ...

A twig and a flashlight were all it took to project Marguerite’s garden onto the scenery in shadows. In a particularly ...

Gerald Finley and Julia Bullock star in John Adams’s Antony and Cleopatra at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / ...

Tchaikovsky was a model to his Russian successors in many ways, but the most distinctive—and the most Russian—thing he bequeathed to them was the genre of the “elegiac trio,” which has been taken up ...

Christophe Dumaux and Louise Alder in the English Concert’s performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto Sunday at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Fadi Kheir For any classical musician or ensemble to take ...

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 ...

In the piano competition world, it seems Rachmaninoff is the key to gold medals. Yekwon’s performance of that composer’s ...