Teatro Nuovo followed its July 15 Don Giovanni performance with Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia the following night, again at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. The company’s fine period-instrument orchestra was here led by … » Read

While the U.S. celebrated its semiquincentennial this month, Will Crutchfield’s Teatro Nuovo looked back not to 1776, but to a more recent milestone: the 1825–1826 season, when the traveling company led by tenor Manuel García … » Read

The ongoing crisis at the Boston Symphony Orchestra seems to have done little to dilute the quality of the ensemble’s music making. Since the March announcement that the BSO board had decided not to renew Andris Nelsons’s contract as … » Read

SKOKIE, Ill. — As live music crawled back in the summer of 2021, launching a new opera company was on no one’s bingo card. No one’s except Emanuele Andrizzi and Franco Pomponi. The Italian conductor and Italian-American baritone … » Read

LONDON—As Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres recently demonstrated at the Met, it is still possible these days to encounter a well-matched Tristan and Isolde in Wagner’s three-act endurance test. In even better news, Sara … » Read

The Metropolitan Museum commemorated July 4 with David Lang’s 2014 choral work The National Anthems . The five-movement, 24-minute piece was performed three times (for free) during the afternoon by the Clarion Choir and the Catalyst … » Read

In June, the Leipzig Bach Festival held a “Top 50 Bach Cantata Countdown”: 12 concerts—two per day, with four, and sometimes five cantatas each—counting down to No. 1. This curated craziness, June 11-21, was the brainchild … » Read

LONDON—Renowned as a showcase for a coloratura superstar, Vincenzo Bellini’s final opera hasn’t been seen at Covent Garden since the early 1990s. Richard Jones’s unconventional new staging for the Royal Ballet and Opera … » Read

LONDON—Michael Grandage’s 2010 staging of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd made a welcome return to Glyndebourne June 28 with a consistently fine cast and Allan Clayton making an anticipated role debut as the conflicted Captain … » Read

MUNICH—Wagner operas are not usually occasions for merriment. They are more often received in rapt concentration, as if sitting in church and staying silent until the end of sermon. That was not the case at the Bayerische Staatsoper on June … » Read