The superstar soprano gave her solo debut at Carnegie Hall, complete with vocal dazzle, carefully stylized poses, and flowers.
In a year of beginnings, the Jaap van Zweden era started at the New York Philharmonic, and the 92-year-old composer Gyorgy Kurtag’s first opera had its premiere.
The soprano Julia Bullock, in residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art this season, organized a program devoted to Hughes’s poems about New York.
Joël Bons, a Dutch composer with an interest in different cultural traditions, has won the $100,000 Grawemeyer Award for “Nomaden.”
Two diva documentaries and a Glass-Handel extravaganza were among the highlights.
Concerned about diminishing opportunities for Jews in her homeland, she emigrated to the United States and started over.
Jaap van Zweden led the orchestra in Shostakovich’s “Leningrad” Symphony and Britten’s Violin Concerto, with Simone Lamsma in a brilliant debut.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
In “The Indispensable Composers,” the New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini chooses the best of the bunch.
The pianist Evan Shinners is drawing pedestrians into an empty Manhattan storefront where he is playing five hours of Bach each day for more than month.
The baritone Christian Gerhaher and the pianist Gerold Huber have become bywords for sensitivity, cerebral depth and seeming perfection in lieder.
A Hartke premiere, Juan Diego Flórez and Mary Halvorson were among the highlights.
As the classic dance returns to New York City Ballet, the company’s music director explains the page of the score that reveals Tchaikovsky’s daring.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
Emmanuelle Haïm, in her debut with the orchestra, led a polished, if muted, program of Handel and Rameau.
Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. 2, given a belated premiere on Tuesday by the Mannes Orchestra, is striking in its command of monstrous forces.
The French conductor Emmanuelle Haïm is making her debut with the New York Philharmonic this week in a program of Handel and Rameau.
Several major American orchestras have recently played Mahler’s Fifth. Boston’s rendition didn’t quite convince.
The pianist Jeremy Denk reviews the biography “Schumann: The Faces and the Masks,” by Judith Chernaik.
“Fryderyk Chopin,” a magisterial new biography by Alan Walker, offers fresh insight into the legendary pianist and composer, whose reputation thrived after a life cut short by illness.
In “Debussy: A Painter in Sound,” the Stravinsky biographer Stephen Walsh focuses on the music.
Kaija Saariaho’s “Only the Sound Remains” was a highlight of the festival’s final week, which also included the Latvian Radio Choir and Les Arts Florissants.
The premiere of Gyorgy Kurtag's Beckett-inspired opera in Milan and the White Light Festival at Lincoln Center were among the highlights.
A new edition of Julius Eastman’s Symphony No. 2, dedicated to a former lover in the early 1980s, will have its premiere by the Mannes Orchestra.
When singers move well, opera’s physical side becomes related to choreography, connecting humans to music in terms of space, time and meaning.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced its plans for next summer at Tanglewood, its bucolic summer home in the Berkshires.
The music of Florence Price, who reached a milestone in 1933 but spent decades in obscurity, will be published by G. Schirmer.
The Austrian festival has announced that operas exploring the myths of Oedipus, Medea and Orpheus will be on the bill next summer.