There is a widely held (if not often proclaimed) view by those who know his operas well that Die Frau ohne Schatten ( The Woman Without a Shadow ) is Richard Strauss’s greatest opera. Its emphasis on the moral imperative of bringing … » Read

At a time when pianists scurry to find new repertoire—transcriptions now seem to be especially in vogue—Sir Stephen Hough (knighted in 2022) has long been in the vanguard of offering recital audiences new musical adventures. “An … » Read

LONDON—Back in the day, BBC television’s situation comedies used to announce their end credits with the legend ‘’You have been watching….’’ The creative team for ENO’s new staging of The Elixir of … » Read

LOS ANGELES—In September, the Getty Foundation launched PST ART:  Art & Science Collide , a sweeping collaborative initiative that encompasses exhibitions and performances currently taking place across Southern California and … » Read

The Berlin Philharmonic’s three Carnegie Hall concerts (Nov. 17, 18 and 19) under its Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko—part of a U.S. tour that also included Washington, D.C., Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Boston—offered one mixed … » Read

American composer/conductor John Adams (b. 1947), the New York Philharmonic’s 2024-’25 artistic partner, is a prolific creator who is also comfortable on the podium with a wide range of repertoire. His 20 th - and 21 st- century … » Read

A recent double-bill of one-act works by the New School’s Mannes Opera attests to the bustling vitality of the contemporary artform. Billed as “opera-in-concert,” the Nov. 9 program at the School’s Tishman auditorium … » Read

JACK Quartet is celebrating its 20th anniversary looking and acting too young to be true, and too busy in the present to look back at its past. This was signaled from the first moment of its Nov. 10 concert at the 92nd Street Y, which exploded … » Read

What’s Aida without the spectacle? For Anne Bogart, the Boston Lyric Opera’s artistic associate and theatrical director, the company’s staged concert production on Nov. 10 was an opportunity to offer “each audience member … » Read

LONDON—When Jacques Offenbach died in 1880, he left a great deal of music for what would become known as his operatic magnum opus but rather fewer clues as to his final intentions. His musical executor, Ernest Guirard, set to work … » Read