This was the grimly honest way mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges described to me what happened this year — to her fast-rising career, and to all of classical music after the coronavirus pandemic forced the ...

The pandemic may have cancelled live performances and moviegoing for most of 2020, but for film-music buffs, that just meant more time at home listening to their favorite music, including many ...

In September, Houston Grand Opera staged a very different opening night: a two-person recital co-starring soprano Tamara Wilson and pianist Patrick Summers. With no live audience, the performance was ...

The year 2020 was, in so many ways, divided. In terms of live performances, musicians were forced to reinvent, reflect and respond from a distance and in turn I watched their concerts from the remove ...

Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2020 Tuesday, November 25, 2025 Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla 's recording of Weinberg's Symphonies Nos 2 & 21 with the CBSO and Kremerata Baltica won Gramophone's Recording ...

What exactly is required for a meaningful musical encounter? A big hall? A formally attired orchestra? A large, cheering audience? Turns out the answer is none of the above. This was a manifestly ...

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra musicians perform classical music for Upper West Side voters outside the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in New York. In April, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to our critics’ favorites from a year in which much of the energy in music came from recordings. By Anthony Tommasini Zachary Woolfe Joshua ...