Maria Kalesnikava (right) at a panel with Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska at the Beethovenfest Bonn on October 2 • Photo © Michael Staab Maria Kalesnikava, the ...

I first met the composer Wang Lu on a warm weekend in south Brooklyn in the spring of 2008. The International Contemporary Ensemble, where I’m a pianist and original member, was about to premiere her ...

The first opera I ever saw was the entire “Ring,” which lasts some 15 hours over four days. This was the 1980 Centennial Ring, or Jahrhundertring, marking 100 years since the world premiere of the ...

In 2032, the Philharmonie, the home of the Berlin Philharmonic, will close for major renovations—the year of the orchestra’s 150th anniversary. The project raises thorny questions: Where will the ...

“I found a great girl for your next stay in Paris,” the conductor Frédéric Chaslin wrote to Jeffrey Epstein in September 2013. Chaslin told the financier, who first pleaded guilty of solicitation of ...

Between the winter of 1950–51, when he began mapping out a series of “Projections” in squares on graph paper, and the attenuating final breath of “Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello” in 1987, there were ...

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival—or HCMF for short—is in full swing, celebrating its 48th edition with performances, workshops, installations and more, all against the backdrop of mounting ...

In August 2023, the orchestral conductor Rebecca Bryant Novak began a doctor of musical arts degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Bryant Novak, who had spent time working as a ...

Lefevre James Cranstone, “The Ohio River near Wheeling, West Virginia” (1859–60) • Image Public Domain With Trump’s tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue and combat-fatigued foot soldiers guarding ...

On Saturday, Oliver Mears, the director of opera at London’s Royal Ballet and Opera, walked on stage at the curtain call of “Il Trovatore” to try to take down a Palestine flag that was unveiled by a ...

At 85, Wendy Carlos remains an enigmatic figure in the world of classical music. Intensely private, she has not granted an interview request in over 15 years. When the first book-length treatment of ...

All images from ‘The Rheingold & The Valkyrie’ (1910) and ‘Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods’ (1911) by Arthur Rackham • All photos public domain I’ve long accepted the fact that I am one of tens ...