DETROIT – Why did it take so long for X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X to receive its first major revival? After all, the opera on the iconic Nation of Islam (NOI) civil rights leader, with pulsating music by Anthony Davis and a libretto … » Read

For the first time since the coronavirus shuttered the world of classical music, the New York Philharmonic has ventured abroad, performing three concerts between May 20 and May 24 on Germany's Baltic Sea island of Usedom. The occasion celebrates … » Read

Last fall Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones opened the season at the Metropolitan Opera, the first work by a Black composer to ever be performed in the 138-year history of the company. The opera is the second by the jazz … » Read

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Vangelis, the Greek electronic composer who wrote the unforgettable Academy Award-winning score for the film Chariots of Fire and music for dozens of other movies, documentaries and TV series, has died at 79. Greek … » Read

If you’ve ever had the privilege of talking with Steve Reich, you’ll know the thoughts come thick and fast—so fast sometimes you can barely keep up. The beauty of Conversations is how all that wisdom and knowledge has been … » Read

Larry Edelson , founding artistic and executive director of the American Lyric Theater, is to step down from his additional post as Opera Saratoga’s artistic and general director at the end of the 2022 summer festival. He has been in the … » Read

The city of Prague has named Bjarke Ingels Group, with offices in Copenhagen and New York, as the designer of its new Vltava Philharmonic Hall. An international jury reviewed plans submitted by 19 global architectural firms before reaching a … » Read

WRR, the first licensed broadcast station in Texas and one of the oldest operating radio stations in the country, is about to get new management. Owned and operated, albeit fitfully at times, by the city of Dallas since its founding in 1921 in a … » Read

“My Lord, what a morning,” sang soprano Julia Bullock at the top of “History’s Persistent Voice, ” her deeply affecting, sometimes disturbing and always full-hearted work created for solo voice and orchestra. … » Read

Among the important reviews of Brett Dean’s new Hamlet at the Met Opera on May 13, there is universal agreement on the size of the work’s impact, as well as the sterling job of tenor Allan Clayton in the title role, onstage and … » Read