The answer to both was similar: Green exceeded all expectations, and the production is even worse than remembered.

That novel is now an opera, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and opening the house’s new season Sunday evening. (The ...

Music is a magnet for outside influences, and Sephardic Jews had plenty of them. After their expulsion from the Iberian ...

It would be hard to imagine a festival opening in a more unassuming fashion than this one, with a single singer humming ...

Michael Fabiano as Calaf and Angela Meade in the title role of Puccini’s Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera Puccini’s Turandot is the backbone of the Metropolitan ...

He didn’t stop there; another highlight of Mendelssohn’s lifelong Bach campaign was a recital of the old composer’s works on ...

Dudamel knows the Ives symphonies, having recorded a solid but unremarkable set with the LA Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon. Thursday night’s performance of the Second Symphony was more vivid and ...

Eric Owens and Ryan Speedo Green in Terence Blanchard’s Champion at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera The production had a lot going for it: the good will (and expanded audience ...

Steve Reich’s Jacob’s Ladder was given its world premiere by Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic this week. Photo: Jay Blakesberg For some concertgoers, there was a hint of nostalgia in the ...

Han Chen performed Ligeti’s complete Études and 18 premieres inspired by them Sunday at National Sawdust. Photo: Hemsing Associates György Ligeti’s three books of Études for piano are among the ...