This is a Bellini season at the Metropolitan Opera, which is both a welcome and complex proposition. The composer and his bel ...

Radu Ratoi performed Thursday night at Merkin Hall, presented by Young Concert Artists. Photo: YCA The accordion is the only instrument that you play by embracing it. That helps to account for its ...

Günther Groissböck is known to New York audiences from his appearances at the Metropolitan Opera. Since his debut as Colline in La Bohème in 2010, the Austrian bass has appeared in Verdi, Wagner, and ...

Manfred Honeck conducted the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra with Seong-Jin Cho as soloist in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Manfred ...

Alfred Walker and Brittany Renee star in Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Richard Termine/Met Opera Like a successful business enterprise, the Metropolitan Opera’s ...

Tōnu Kaljuste conducted the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Tallinn Chamber Orchestra in music of Arvo Pärt Friday night at Zankel Hall. Photo: Riina Varol For a man who is probably this ...

Yuja Wang performed Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the National Youth Orchestra of the USA All-Stars Tuesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Music for a party is a ...

Nadine Sierra stars as Amina in Bellini’s La Sonnambula at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Marty Sohl / Met Opera For such a famous opera, a vehicle for some of the great modern divas, La Sonnambula ...

The title 11,000 Strings promises something grand, and indeed Georg Friedrich Haas’ piece is large-scale in physical scope, duration, and ambition. This is a piece for 50 pianos (the 11,000 strings) ...

Andrzej Filończyk (left) and Myles Mykkanen in Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera The best works of art, in any medium, ...

Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry were soloists in Kevin Puts’s The Brightess of Light with Brett Mitchell conducting the New York Philharmonic Friday night. Photo: Brandon Patoc Whatever else one says ...

If opera casting were a competitive sport, there would have been something unfair about the new singers the Metropolitan Opera put in front of the audience Saturday night in Le Nozze di Figaro. This ...