The city of Magdeburg, some one and a half hours west of Berlin, isn't the sort of place that features in international cool city rankings. Still, each year a steady stream of highly qualified young ...

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 ...

“The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts)” subverts expectations of the genre by making fun of classical composers typically featured in these concerts. The show, written by librettist Jeremy Denk ...

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 ...

Of course, you’ve heard of Latin pop — and opera. They're two genres that are worlds apart. But when you bring them together, you get Latin pop opera. That's the genre of music played by The Latin ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...