The legacy of the late composer/conductor Pierre Boulez lives on, most notably through the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the esteemed new-music chamber group he founded in 1976. It arrived at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall on March 25 with a concert … » Read

Like pre-draft NFL quarterbacks jumping from team to team, conductors on the music directorship carousel elicit much speculation. Take Susanna Mälkki, for instance. She’s much admired, especially as a deeply experienced middle-aged … » Read

LONDON— Things to Come , H.G. Wells’s vision of global warfare and dream of mankind’s quest for the stars, is a remarkable thing. Realized as a 1936 black and white movie by producer Alexander Korda, with a blisteringly dramatic … » Read

CHICAGO—Leave it to Yuval Sharon + to make Lyric Opera of Chicago’s most daring project in decades even more daring. Four years ago, Renée Fleming, the company’s then-creative consultant, assigned three … » Read

When the Greek debt crisis of 2015 unleashed economic turmoil in that country, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation ploughed on with building its plush Cultural Center near Athens's port. Greek National Opera (GNO) relocated to the complex two years … » Read

LONDON—It’s a confident company that programs Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt , a work calling for vast orchestral forces and singers with the stamina of oxen. English National Opera may have its ongoing funding woes, … » Read

Bach’s Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Evagelistam Matthaeum or St. Matthew Passion had been missing from the New York Philharmonic for 15 years when Jaap van Zweden revived it for three performances last weekend at David Geffen … » Read

SAN FRANCISCO—Scintillating and droll, potent and puckish, William Kentridge’s multi-valenced chamber opera-cum-film SIBYL had a buoyantly received United States premiere March 17 at Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. The ovation was … » Read

Olivier Messiaen’s Turangalîla Symphony has its share of brutal dissonance—no question about that—yet some critics called it, according to the composer, an homage to the major third, a sonority as unlike dissonance as one … » Read

Uncovered Three A round-up of outstanding new, or new-to-disc American chamber music, is headed by the latest in Catalyst Quartet’s revelatory “Uncovered” series. The follow up to acclaimed volumes of music by Samuel … » Read