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Violinist Joshua Bell, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Jeremy Denk are the latest in a line of star soloists who formed ...
Matthew Aucoin’s Music for New Bodies was heard in its New York premiere Thursday at the Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center. The ongoing Run AMOC* Festival at Lincoln Center brought out one of its ...
Thomas Oliemans as Papageno and Lawrence Brownlee as Tamino in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera For those who equate Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte with ...
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.
Brandon Jovanovich is Captain Ahab in Jake Heggie’s Moby-Dick. Photo: Karen Almond / Met Opera The very concept seems impossible: taking Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick—not just one of the greatest ...
Karol Mossakowski performed Tuesday evening at The Brick Presbyterian Church. Photo: Marie Rolland There are few visceral musical delights greater than an organ recital with its extraordinary display ...
Joel Sachs led Continuum in a musical tribute to composer Chou Wen-chung Thursday night at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre.
“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 ...
The big event at Lincoln Center this summer is the Run Amoc* festival, produced by the American Modern Opera Company. More than opera, the festival will cover instrumental performances and dance ...
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 ...