At long last, vindication is at hand for an Oscar-winning composer who sought to prove he was just as capable of breathing life into Italy’s grand theaters as into gritty Hollywood films.

The National Youth Opera Academy, in collaboration with the Young Voices of the Santa Fe Opera, will offer an intensive new ...

Throughout his life, Ennio Morricone felt shunned by the classical music world. But these days his pop-culture cachet isn’t ...

Aside from the tone, the key was finding the sound of the Creature, played by Jacob Elordi. In del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” the ...

Some 290 years on, Handel’s Ariodante is back in Covent Garden, but it had lain fallow for 228 of those before a late 20th century revival in interest. In reading of its history, you gain the ...

Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprise ...

At the opera, my highlights of 2025 included Washington National Opera’s winning “ Porgy and Bess ,” a revival of artistic ...

Philip Venables and Ted Huffman adapt Larry Mitchell’s classic of 1970s gay literature in a joyous, boundary-blurring event ...

A new exhibition that opened Nov. 5 at the Jewish Museum Milwaukee is called 'Violins of Hope: Strings of Jewish Resistance and Resilience,' but seeing these 24 instruments - each of which has some ...

One of the violins on display at the Violins of Hope exhibition in Milwaukee. Violins of Hope was founded by Amnon Weinstein, who grew up repairing instruments with his father, Moshe. Moshe was a ...

Even worse, acoustic problems have bedevilled the Concert Hall since it opened. The listening ­experience is too variable. Where you sit determines the quality of what you hear. In recent years, ...