The Boston-based White Snake Projects and its founder Cerise Lim Jacobs have a well-established reputation for cutting-edge ventures , so their recent performances of Monkey: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable raised expectations on the part of a critic … » Read

Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly , one of opera’s undeniable treasures, has in recent years become a flashpoint for critics due to its stereotyped images of Japan and the male fantasies too readily assigned to Asian women. … » Read

LONDON—It may be all change at the London Symphony Orchestra, but the programming is as original as ever. Simon Rattle, the outgoing music director, was a sterling champion of new, or modern music, and it appears that in associate artist … » Read

On Sept. 12, Angel Blue made a triumphant return, after 14 years, to San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera House as Leonora, a role debut, in Verdi’s Il Trovatore . Last seen at San Francisco Opera in 2009 in a brief role in Porgy and … » Read

Among the first stirrings of the new season, the New York Armory’s estimable recital series presented on September 11 acclaimed soprano Julia Bullock in the intimate Board of Officers Room. John Arida was at the piano for a varied program … » Read

LONDON—There’s little doubt that the first installment of Barrie Kosky’s new Ring Cycle for the Royal Opera House was the hottest ticket of the London season. At this September 12 premiere performance of Das Rheingold , the … » Read

CARDIFF—The Metropolitan Opera is set to present Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov’s first opera, Ainadamar , during the 2024-25 season, and to judge by the local premiere that opened at the Welsh Millennium Center on September 9, … » Read

CHICAGO — Classical music might be ever more undefinable, but one constant is usually assured: works are written by, and reverently credited to, a single composer. For Third Coast Percussion, all bets are off. For the better part of a … » Read

The Florence Price renaissance marches on, the latest instalment being The Philadelphia Orchestra’s follow-up to their outstanding recording of the composer’s First and Third Symphonies. Price made history as the first Black woman to … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO — John Zorn is a unique, proudly unclassifiable musician. His music spans classical, jazz, film, and klezmer, using notated and improvised scores mostly collaborative or orchestral but occasionally solo. He has been influenced … » Read