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Saturday night was a very unusual night in Carnegie Hall. Angel Blue, the starry soprano from California, sang a recital with ...

James Piereson on the real problem in Washington.

Recent stories of note: “New book celebrates William Butterfield, a master of High Victorian Gothic architecture” Peter ...

Beethoven offers two roles—two juicy opportunities—for young tenors: Jaquino and the First Prisoner. Magnus Dietrich (in his ...

From New York, the Philharmonic will travel, or has traveled, to California, for concerts under the baton of a different ...

The London Symphony Orchestra came to Carnegie Hall for a two-concert stand: Wednesday and Thursday nights. On the podium was ...

The National Symphony assembled an outstanding cast for Vanessa, but in the world of opera, outstanding casts are fragile ...

Jake Heggie has been prominent at the Met of late. His Dead Man Walking opened the 2023–24 season. Moby-Dick premiered in ...

Of course such dullards exist, and I have elsewhere in these pages chastised a couple of Latinists, of all people, for their ...

Although the composer intended for the piece to be choreographed, the music so captivated the ballet impresario Sergei ...

Despite the leading motifs Beethoven wrote for the soloist, Shaham was almost deferential to the orchestra, which was led ...