Is “The Yellow Tie,” starring John Malkovich as Sergiu Celibidache, a biopic or a hagiography?

Following allegations of inappropriate behavior against the conductor John Eliot Gardiner in June, the Bach Festival Leipzig informed employees today of its decision to continue its collaboration with ...

On Tuesday, the newspaper Badische Neueste Nachrichten announced the death of Hans Florian Messner at the age of 84. Messner was best known in musical circles for his connection to Pierre Boulez, for ...

Between the winter of 1950–51, when he began mapping out a series of “Projections” in squares on graph paper, and the attenuating final breath of “Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello” in 1987, there were ...

In August 2023, the orchestral conductor Rebecca Bryant Novak began a doctor of musical arts degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Bryant Novak, who had spent time working as a ...

Everywhere you look, politics are seeping into opera. In New York, Metropolitan Opera General Manager Peter Gelb, accompanied onstage by Democratic senator Chuck Schumer, gave a rousing opening-night ...

One of the great joys of getting to know classical music is learning to recognize how funny it can be. Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony may not seem like a particularly interesting piece the first time you ...

On a recent warm autumn evening in Porto, the Russian-Armenian pianist Eva Gevorgyan performed before a crowd so spasmodic with coughing fits it may yet prove to be a locus of the next pandemic. The ...

Not long ago, I read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. One line stayed with me: “Then I may tell you that the very next words I read were these—‘Chloe liked Olivia. . .’ Do not start. Do not blush ...

A new autumn brings with it a new season from Vache Baroque, les nouveaux enfants terribles of Baroque opera. This year’s offering is André Campra’s 1699 opera-ballet “Le Carnaval de Venise,” which ...

Lefevre James Cranstone, “The Ohio River near Wheeling, West Virginia” (1859–60) • Image Public Domain With Trump’s tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue and combat-fatigued foot soldiers guarding ...

On Saturday, Oliver Mears, the director of opera at London’s Royal Ballet and Opera, walked on stage at the curtain call of “Il Trovatore” to try to take down a Palestine flag that was unveiled by a ...