Think opera is all velvet curtains, impossibly expensive tickets and stories you vaguely remember from school? Think again.

Why do we focus on the bad news stories about cuts and crises in classical music ? Musicians are doing incredible things to engage, support and sustain us; we should tell those stories too When did ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Thinking outside the canon, and finding the gritty and the beautiful, within it. By Joshua Barone and Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim JOSHUA BARONE Few ...

In February, actor Timothée Chalamet quipped in an interview, "I don't want to be working in ballet or opera, or you know, things where it's like, 'Hey, keep this thing alive,' even though it's like, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Lise Davidsen’s recital at the Met Opera, Gustavo Dudamel leading “Romeo and Juliet,” and a violinist’s personal program are among our selections.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts has announced 2026 opera and classical season, featuring the return of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) for an impressive summer residency at the ...

Mussorgsky’s unfinished, sprawling epic Khovanshchina – best translated, with a touch of irony, as “The Khovansky To-Do” – received a superb revival at Staatsoper Unter den Linden, in a performance ...

Musically, it’s hard to imagine a finer Tristan und Isolde than the one that opened at the Deutsche Oper on Saturday. Dramatically, however, it’s a very different story. Michael Thalheimer’s staging, ...

May sees our classical music season drawing to its conclusion. Some groups have already signed off, but a few big projects, like Vancouver Opera’s latest, La Bohème, are still on offer. And there are ...