SAN FRANCISCO—It’s not often that clothes match the style and mood of a concert. But such was the case on Thursday, February 5, in a splendid all-Mozart bill performed by the San Francisco Symphony. Conductor Harry Bicket made the … » Read

Iván Fischer, leading his Budapest Festival Orchestra on February 6 in the first of two Carnegie Hall concerts, began the evening with a droll surprise. The billed program-opener was Summa by Arvo Pärt, current holder of … » Read

VIENNA—Have you ever wondered what it would be like to die and go to Baroque heaven? The audience at this February 4 concert performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto at Theater an der Wien got a pretty good idea, as zesty … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—The emcee and narrator of the January 31 Jewish Nightlife program at Temple Emanu—El made the show’s agenda explicit from the outset. This is not, said Francesco Spagnolo, an evening about Jewish Music, but rather … » Read

PARIS—Beethoven’s Missa solemnis has returned to the center of musical life in a striking way. In Paris on January 28, Klaus Mäkelä led the work with the Choeur and Orchestre de Paris for the second time in his still-young … » Read

SALZBURG—Mozart Week continues to thrive under the popular stewardship of its current Intendant Rolando Villazón, attracting the very finest performers to the composer’s hometown despite the chill of the Austrian winter. This … » Read

Davóne Tines has built much of his career around social engagement. The American bass-baritone has fostered projects like The Black Clown , a cabaret-like theatricalization of Langston Hughes’s poem, and VIGIL , a pandemic-era video … » Read

The hottest opera ticket in Paris is  Eugene Onegin at the Opéra Garnier. Long planned with Semyon Bychkov at the helm, the arrival of a new production fortuitously coincided with the conductor’s appointment last month as music … » Read

Andre Previn’s 1994 setting of Toni Morrison’s “Shelter” contains the phrase “Under your wings/I will find shelter/from ordinary things.” Together with cellist Seth Parker Woods and pianist Conor Hanick, Julia … » Read

The title of So Percussion’s January 23 Zankel Hall program, “American Flow (Vol. 1),” came from hip-hop, where the word “flow” describes the interaction of rapped, percussive lyrics with their musical backing. In … » Read