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 ...

Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House swept all before it, but there was plenty of extraordinary new music, exhilarating performances and triumphs of talent, commitment and resourcefulness across ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Fall Preview Malcolm X at the Met. Jaap van Zweden’s farewell to the New York Philharmonic. Premieres by Kate Soper and Ted Hearne. It’s shaping up to ...

Classical radio station WCPE in Wake Forest, N.C. has reversed its stance on six contemporary operas in the Metropolitan Opera's 2023-24 season that it had flagged for 'inappropriate' content. After ...

The solstice is past and the days are getting longer — what could be better news? And for classical music lovers, there’s a happy new season to look forward to. I can’t deny it. The single event I’m ...

Tell a performer, “Break a leg”, before they take the stage is to wish them good luck, of course. Elias Hendricks broke a leg, literally. Not on stage but on a soccer field—and just before the ...

The quarreling lovers in Puccini’s La Bohème agree to stay together “until the season of flowers,” which, allowing for global warming, makes March 19 as good a date as any for the return of the Met’s ...

Classical-music devotees who’ve been missing the sound of live music and the camaraderie of intermissions can begin to breathe a sigh of relief as the pandemic, at least around these parts, begins to ...