For its opening night, the Mostly Mozart festival offered a program of symphony and song featuring the Young People’s Chorus of New York.
A Little Night Music, the popular series of late-night, hourlong programs, returns to the elegant and intimate Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center.
Barrie Kosky banned Wagner from his opera house. Now he’s confronting his most nationalistic work — as the first Jewish director in the Bayreuth Festival’s 141-year history.
Carnegie Hall hosted back-to-back performances from American and Chinese ensembles.
Political messages from the pianist Igor Levit and the conductor Daniel Barenboim were among the highlights.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera.
The Met will set out 3,000 chairs for screenings of Ingmar Bergman’s film of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” followed by 10 nights of starry performances.
A curious observation at symphony rehearsal.
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Mr. Peskanov, the artistic director of the floating concert hall on the East River, will perform two sets on violin.
Spending time with the National Youth Orchestras of the United States and China, a critic finds that magical moments become almost commonplace.
Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony gave a supple, uncomplicated account of “Das Rheingold.”...
The singer Gong Linna joined a composer and the founding members of Bang on a Can to perform a spiritual cycle of songs as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
The charismatic countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in “Aci, Galatea e Polifemo,” an early Handel cantata, staged as a modern drama of entitlement and brutality.
The singers Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Anthony Roth Costanzo, as well as works by Handel and Berlioz, were among the highlights.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera.
Ensembles from the United States and China will perform works by John Adams, Mahler, Zhou Long, Dvorak and others.
The countertenor, a collaborator with Nico Muhly, Joyce DiDonato and Justin Vivian Bond, has created an unusual career of music very old and very new.
The Ninth, and its “Ode to Joy” finale, were featured in a concert in front of world leaders on Friday, but the work’s meaning is far from clear.
The Albany Symphony is playing along the canal to celebrate the bicentennial of the artificial waterway, which transformed New York.
Maria Callas, Anja Harteros and music by Marc Blizstein and Kurt Weill were among the highlights.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera.
A seldom-heard Handel dramatic serenata gets a modern operatic staging, with contemporary resonances, at National Sawdust in Brooklyn.
On a new recording, the pianist Jan Lisiecki performs a set of variations on a Mozart melody, along with other overlooked Chopin works for piano and orchestra.
Operas in Britain, “Whipped Cream” at American Ballet Theater and the composing side of Jad Abumrad of “Radiolab” were among the highlights.
Recommendations for other outdoor performances, scheduled around the holiday and beyond, suggested by reporters and critics of The New York Times.
Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera.
An interview with Jad Abumrad, the MacArthur “genius” radio producer who moonlights as a composer and will perform a work in progress this week.
The director, Nigel Redden, announced on Wednesday that he would leave the position after this summer’s festival, his 20th.
In his new biography, “Toscanini: Musician of Conscience,” Harvey Sachs presents a demanding but tenderhearted genius who stood up to fascism and hate.