The title 11,000 Strings promises something grand, and indeed Georg Friedrich Haas’ piece is large-scale in physical scope, duration, and ambition. This is a piece for 50 pianos (the 11,000 strings) ...

That novel is now an opera, commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and opening the house’s new season Sunday evening. (The work premiered at Indiana University in 2024.) If composer Mason Bates and ...

Hobson was joined by violinist Andrés Cárdenes for Schumann’s Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3, played in reverse order. That meant opening with Schumann’s final composition, Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Wo0 2.

Puccini’s Turandot is the backbone of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2025-26 season. Franco Zeffirelli’s spectacular, ...

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

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

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

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