BOSTON--Choreographer/dancer Caleb Teicher and pianist/composer Conrad Tao opened a short run of their More Forever, on January 31 in the Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theater at New England Conservatory. Part of Boston’s Celebrity Series, … » Read

LOS ANGELES—The legend of Orpheus and Eurydice has been prime fodder for composers for centuries, from Monteverdi to Stravinsky and beyond. Yet for reasons that no one has been able to definitively explain, the fetish for all things … » Read

Alexei Ratmansky is known as a highly musical choreographer, celebrated for his reconstructions of 19th-century classics and explorations of Eastern European folk-inspired styles. So the announcement that his newest work for New York City Ballet … » Read

Since she finished in Hamburg where she headed up the Staatsoper and Philharmonic from 2005 to 2015, Simone Young has become an increasingly sought-after guest on the international circuit. From 2022, the Australian-born conductor will take up … » Read

MILAN--Omer Meir Wellber's inaugural production as the new (as of January 1) music director of Palermo's Teatro Massimo could hardly have been more ambitious. Parsifal was completed in Palermo in 1882 but had not been performed at the Massimo for … » Read

When stars collide, expect fireworks. That was certainly the case January 28 when Carnegie’s Zankel Hall bore witness to the stellar conjunction of pre-eminent German composer Jörg Widmann and ICE, America’s outstanding new music … » Read

LEEDS—Kurt Weill’s 1949 urban tragedy falls between two generic stools and has been made to suffer for it. Is it opera or musical theater? What kind of voice does it need, classically trained or Broadway belter? Does music drive the … » Read

LOS ANGELES –-The events, personalities and issues of the 1960s—the riots, the assassinations, the Beatles, drugs, free love, Vietnam, feminism, black power, etc.—have been publicized so much as to nearly lose their power to … » Read

The greatest operas are those in which outstanding music is wed to a powerful, poetic libretto. Contemporary examples include John Adams’s work with Alice Goodman ( Nixon in China , The Death of Klinghoffer ), or George Benjamin’s … » Read

If it’s January it must be Prototype. Now in its eighth year, New York’s laboratory for original opera and music theater works goes from strength to strength, a combination of artistic savvy, raw passion, and a feeling for the … » Read