At the opera, my highlights of 2025 included Washington National Opera’s winning “ Porgy and Bess ,” a revival of artistic ...

Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...

We take a look at the arias, movements, songs and dances whose fame has outshone the larger works in which they first ...

From Gustavo Dudamel to Esa-Pekka Salonen to Claire Chase to Peter Sellars, classical music had many bright spots in 2025.

The fall concert season begins not just with the customary Beethoven and Bruckner but also with a great polychrome explosion of music from Latin America. The Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel conducting a ...

There’s surely a thick book to be written about the influence of Javanese gamelan on western classical music. Debussy ...

Bampton Classical Opera will celebrate St Beornwald on December 17 with Charpentier’s Messe de minuit, plus works by Purcell and Buxtehude at ...

Saturday Metropolitan Opera broadcasts are back with the thrilling return to live performance and cherished archival recordings. The longest-running classical music program on-air, the Met Opera ...

Was it the live music I missed most, or the intermissions — with all those delightful exchanges about the performers, the music, the weather, the traffic, or the seats? At last now — after the awful ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Fall Preview Among the highlights: the reopening of David Geffen Hall, the premiere of ‘The Hours’ at the Met and visits from the Berlin and Los ...