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The big event at Lincoln Center this summer is the Run Amoc* festival, produced by the American Modern Opera Company. More ...
Pianist William Yang is the winner of this year’s National Chopin Competition, an event founded by the Chopin Foundation of ...
At first glance, the program might be described as “contemporary conventional,” with its generous helpings of lauded ...
Expressing ethnic identity was not exactly encouraged in the Soviet Union. But Aram Khachaturian got away with it.
“If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season Monday night, “it would ...
5. Aaron Siegel: Watching Birds at the End of the World. Anthony Roth Costanzo, Sae Hashimoto. The Death of Classical. In the world premiere of this affecting song cycle, countertenor Costanzo and ...
Conversely, the composer seemed to cheerfully satirize his own reputation for moroseness and sensuality in the bright bauble of the Rhapsody, liberally quoting the “Dies irae” funeral chant and ...
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 ...
The very concept seems impossible: taking Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick—not just one of the greatest works in American literature but also one of the most unconventional—and turn it into an ...