Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...

At the opera, my highlights of 2025 included Washington National Opera’s winning “ Porgy and Bess ,” a revival of artistic ...

We take a look at the arias, movements, songs and dances whose fame has outshone the larger works in which they first ...

Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t ...

From Gustavo Dudamel to Esa-Pekka Salonen to Claire Chase to Peter Sellars, classical music had many bright spots in 2025.

More than 2,000 children from across Rotherham came together this week to create a new opera celebrating their town’s community spirit. The world premiere of Tales Untapped: A Rotherham Opera received ...

The fall concert season begins not just with the customary Beethoven and Bruckner but also with a great polychrome explosion of music from Latin America. The Venezuelan Gustavo Dudamel conducting a ...

A new opera series is forming in Detroit amid the rapidly growing divide between contemporary and traditional opera lovers, and is throwing down the gauntlet for old-school opera with a classic ...

Houston Grand Opera is taking its renowned recordings into the digital realm. The company has partnered with Apple Music Classical for a spate of new recordings of classic and contemporary operas from ...