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Byline: Anthony Tommasini As Marin Alsop leaves the Baltimore Symphony after 14 years, the field is taking a step backward: 25 major American orchestras, no female music directors. BALTIMORE - [...]

Byline: Anthony Tommasini Anna Netrebko sang a recital live from Vienna as the opera company and its unions remain in a standoff. The Metropolitan Opera rang in 2020 auspiciously, with [...]

Byline: Anthony Tommasini David Greilsammer's new recording charts a fantastical and disorienting adventure through works spanning centuries. Three years ago, in the underground crypt of a church in Harlem, I [...]

On Saturday, Jonas Kaufmann was first in a series of 12 livestreamed recitals featuring Met stars. Tickets are $20. After the coronavirus pandemic forced concert halls and opera houses to [...]

Byline: Anthony Tommasini Yuja Wang caused a small sensation at Carnegie Hall by throwing her program's order to the winds. Carnegie Hall was packed, including extra seats on the stage, [...]

Byline: Anthony Tommasini The orchestra's concert on Friday used few players and observed social distancing guidelines. On March 12, the mighty Berlin Philharmonic went ahead with a concert it had [...]

There was a time when it really meant something to be a Russian singer, or a French or Scandinavian one. But as the world has gotten -- or seemed to [...]

New accounts of standard works, even those covered by dozens of classic recordings, can still enliven classical music. The standard repertory in classical music is often standard for good reason: [...]

Often described as an equal partner to the singers he performed with, he preferred to be called simply a pianist. Dalton Baldwin, an American pianist and recording artist who was [...]

In concerts in Manhattan and Brooklyn, artists explored the intermingling of gay identity and music. Riffing off the popularity of the Tin Pan Alley hit ''The Sheik of Araby,'' Fats [...]

critic's pick Review: A Brother and Sister Triumph Together at Carnegie Hall The cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason gave a superb New York recital debut alongside the pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason. In 2016, [...]

Byline: Anthony Tommasini The look and feel of a concert hall can be as important in your experience of the music as the pure acoustics. Before a concert, the lobby [...]

The look and feel of a concert hall can be as important in your experience of the music as the pure acoustics. Before a concert, the lobby of David Geffen [...]

It's not unusual for star singers rehearsing at the Metropolitan Opera to make time for a recital while they're in New York. But the results are not always this interesting. [...]

Many have long begged for classical music to loosen up the dress codes for its performers. The pianist Conrad Tao must have taken this to heart on Wednesday at Weill [...]

Gianandrea Noseda led Christine Goerke and the National Symphony Orchestra in Act II of ''Tristan und Isolde.'' WASHINGTON -- A lot was at stake for the soprano Christine Goerke and [...]

The pianist Maxim Lando, 17, displayed stamina and brilliance in his New York recital debut. But he still has room to grow as an artist. The American pianist Maxim Lando [...]

Byline: Anthony Tommasini The great soprano, who died on Monday at 74, had a regal, even haughty presence, but also vocal charisma to spare. Singing with penetrating power is not [...]

The great soprano, who died on Monday at 74, had a regal, even haughty presence, but also vocal charisma to spare. Singing with penetrating power is not the same as [...]

Louis Langrée, the music director of the Mostly Mozart Festival -- now through 2023, Lincoln Center recently announced -- has, during his nearly two-decade tenure, revitalized the festival's orchestra impressively. [...]

J÷rg Demus, an Austrian pianist widely respected for the refinement and expressivity of his playing who made more than 350 recordings and accompanied major singers like Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Elly [...]

In the early days of Young Concert Artists, which Susan Wadsworth founded in 1961 to foster fresh talent in classical music, the organization's recitals were presented in an Armenian restaurant [...]

The Mostly Mozart Festival has started, which means the return of A Little Night Music -- intimate, hourlong programs in Lincoln Center's Kaplan Penthouse. Starting at 10 p.m., these events [...]

Wobbly Electronics TRISTAN PERICH MARCH 17 Tristan Perich writes inventive works that combine gritty, lo-fi, one-bit electronic sounds with live music. The results came through in the most startling moment [...]

Venezuela is a country in crisis, with drastic food shortages, public protests and government crackdowns. Given this backdrop, that the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela is making it to [...]

In 1680, the Baroque composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude wrote ''Membra Jesu Nostri,'' a cycle of seven cantatas reflecting on the body of Christ. Over two programs on Sunday, Aug. [...]

This summer, in celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Mostly Mozart Festival has been offering game audience members opportunities for immersion experiences: single evenings with three very contrasting programs in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDA Little Night Music, the series of intimate, hourlong programs at 10 p.m. in the Kaplan Penthouse at Lincoln Center, has become one of the most consistently popular offerings [...]

Byline: ANTHONY TOMMASINI For all the wonders of the web, it 'threatens habits of deeper inquiry,' Ian Leslie argues in 'Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends [...]

On most days of the two-week International Keyboard Institute and Festival, a popular annual venture sponsored by Mannes College the New School for Music, there are two piano recitals each [...]

In his second season as the Philadelphia Orchestra's music director, the French Canadian conductor Yannick Nzet-Sguin has already galvanized this ensemble's audiences and inspired its musicians. New Yorkers mostly know [...]

Though the conductor Simon Rattle's work has been defined for over a decade by his adventurous tenure as principal conductor of the great Berlin Philharmonic, he has continued to maintain [...]

Most summer music festivals find their artistic definition through an overall theme. The Chelsea Music Festival, which opened its third season with a rewarding concert on Friday night at the [...]

THE Juilliard School's inviting 275-seat Paul Hall was nearly packed recently for an early-evening concert, a free 60-minute Liederabend program on which four gifted student singers, each paired with a [...]

THE latest young pianist from China to excite classical music audiences and earn raves from critics is the 24-year-old Yuja Wang, a distinctive artist with a comprehensive technique. That Ms. [...]

''Swelter'' was an apt title for the spatial brass work performed at Central Park Lake on Tuesday afternoon, part of the daylong citywide festival Make Music New York. The performance [...]

The great Brooklyn-born tenor Richard Tucker died in 1975, and by the end of that year a foundation bearing his name was up and running. Since then the foundation, which [...]

If the fast-rising French-Canadian conductor Yannick Nezet-Seguin was at all nervous about making his New York debut with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall on Tuesday night, […]

LOS ANGELES -- Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted his first concert in Green Umbrella, the contemporary-music series presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in April 1991, the year before he became the […]

One of the main reasons that the conductor Kurt Masur, a Teutonic taskmaster, was brought to the New York Philharmonic in 1991 was to instill much-needed discipline after Zubin Mehta's […]

It was supposed to be a breakout moment in the history of the New York Pops and its music director, Skitch Henderson. On Monday night, on seven barges along the […]

In introducing a program of works by Esa-Pekka Salonen last night at Scandinavia House, the conductor Magnus Martensson explained how Mr. Salonen was conscripted into his conducting career. In 1977, […]

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony was the unheard work hovering over the concert by Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic on Friday night at Avery Fisher Hall. The main offering was […]

Those who showed up at Avery Fisher Hall for Tuesday night's all-Copland concert by the New York Philharmonic assuming that they were in for an evening of life-affirming works by […]

Too few composers live to enjoy the kind of respect and acclaim that fell to George Perle last week at Merkin Concert Hall. Mr. Perle turns 85 next year, and […]

Too often, a new work is introduced in a high-profile concert series only to disappear from future programs, its novelty having worn off. But second, third and fourth performances must [...]

Typically, only pianists with formidable techniques win prizes at international piano competitions. But when it comes to rewarding fine musicianship, these controversial events have been far less reliable. In this […]

The pianist Mitsuko Uchida purposely played the works by Chopin, Webern and Mozart that formed the first half of her recital at Carnegie Hall on Monday night in the opposite […]

One of James Levine's goals in starting a series of concerts for the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall was to showcase his superb musicians in repertory that they would not […]

It is not easy to make an interesting program out of one composer's works, especially a past master. But the all-Schumann program of chamber works and songs presented at the […]