David Lang’s “Prisoner of the State” reworks Beethoven for the New York Philharmonic.

Management makes cancellation of summer season official by canceling players’ salaries and health care until Sept. 9.

In Europe, Australia and even the U.S., you can see the blond wig and long red tie onstage

From new recordings to a quartet in a bar, works by Piston, Gershwin and Jessie Montgomery point the way.

Visionary founder Darin Atwater on his orchestra’s new home at Merriweather Post.

The National Symphony Orchestra showcased excellent principals to start the three-part concert series.

Anne Midgette’s obituary of the great Welsh soprano Dame Margaret Price.

Leon Fleisher, the brilliant American pianist who was in his 30s when fingers in his right hand suddenly stopped working — a fateful twist that cut short his playing career — and for three decades was one of the great enigmas of the classical-music…

Go online and you’ll find them, the artists on your screen. Theaters and concert halls are dark across the globe, but in apartments and parks and empty churches, people are performing and streaming the results online. Established companies from the…

Every year has highs and lows. Sometimes they’re even connected. In 2019, classical music wrestled with topical issues and economic concerns that were reflected in some of the year’s most significant triumphs. It was the year of new flexible,…

He wears his elder-statesman mantle lightly, even with a kind of incredulity. He’s “MTT,” music director of the San Francisco Symphony, co-founder of the New World Symphony in Florida, sometime-leader of dozens of major orchestras around the world,…

“The magic word tonight is ‘Intermezzo,’ ” said Gianandrea Noseda, with the air of a “Sesame Street” host announcing that this episode was brought to you by the letter C — the same mixture, that is, of mild, clean humor and didactic clarity. Some…

Sometimes ensembles just need a trip to New York to focus. This is a perennial problem at the Kennedy Center, where touring orchestras often turn in very good performances just before they go to Carnegie Hall and give truly terrific…

On Friday afternoon, the Metropolitan Opera announced insider news with a huge impact on the audience’s experience. Jonathan Friend, the company’s artistic administrator for more than three decades, will step down at the end of this season, and…

In today’s opera world, singers — even famous ones — can feel like cogs in a wheel. It’s not an uncommon scenario to have a young director with limited experience pontificating on what an opera means and how it should be acted to singers who have…

Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas are a library of masterworks spanning a lifetime of styles and artistic growth. In recent years, it has become popular to hear them all at one go, either in a sequence of concerts or a single marathon day. The pianist…

The opera repertoire, for its fans, is what picture books are for children: stacks of much-loved tales worn soft from numerous retellings. Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” is opera’s most beloved fairy tale — a prince and princess and a dragon; light…

Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s music is about spaces. The Icelandic composer creates small worlds for the ear to inhabit, rather than musical narratives for an audience to follow. It’s music of meditation, less driven by lines than by individual sonic…

“Esultate,” exult: It’s the first word out of the mouth of Verdi’s Otello, a passionate tenor with lungs of steel, and a benchmark for one of the hardest roles in the repertory. At the Kennedy Center’s Opera House on Saturday, Washington National…

The signature image of the artist Agnes Denes shows her standing in a field of golden grain, with skyscrapers in the background. It’s not just a snapshot; it’s a record of a work of art. “Wheatfield — A Confrontation” involved planting and tending…