Each year, a different group of teenage musicians joins the NYO-USA, and each year a different conductor, so the ensemble’s ...

Matthew Polenzani in the title role and Etienne Dupuis as Rodrigue in Verdi’s Don Carlos at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera returned from its February hiatus ...

Akhnaten, the last opera in Philip Glass’s trilogy of science, politics, and religion, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night. (The Met presented Satyagraha in 2011, and back in 1976 ...

Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera It was a long trek, but Dead Man Walking finally made it the last mile to the ...

Fedora returned to the Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s Eve after 25 years. A glamorous diva with a sumptuous voice and a dashing romantic tenor is what it takes to make Giordano’s melody-strewn ...

Champion, the first opera by Terence Blanchard, composer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, made its eagerly anticipated Metropolitan Opera debut Monday night to warm applause. In the end, however, the ...

Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...

One Response to “Creative staging makes for fresh Mozart, Bartók with Fischer and Philharmonic” Posted Apr 27, 2025 at 8:18 am by DorothyT A woodwind musician RAVED about the new staging after last ...

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom was performed by the Clarion Choir Saturday night at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral. It seems likely that, when the Sergei Rachmaninoff ...

While the Sunday installment of Bargemusic’s annual Labor Day weekend Here and Now festival started at 4 p.m. and ended long before the sun set, the program opened and closed with night music: ...

E.T.A. Hoffmann, spinner of bizarre tales in the early Romantic era, is remembered today less for his own writings than for his influence on the likes of Hawthorne, Poe, and the young Robert Schumann.