The company’s overstuffed new staging of Bellini’s final work, set during the English Civil War, proves a marvelous vocal ...

Our Pick of the Upcoming Season 2026 is a year of change at the top of the London opera scene. The Royal Opera’s new Music ...

The Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, who died in 2023, wrote music of profoundly shadowed seriousness, and her ironically ...

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

Matthias Pintscher’s first opera in 20 years invites audiences to find their own meaning in a macabre 19th-century tale.

Verdi’s Aida, which is being staged by the world-famous Fondazione Arena di Verona, will merge into the Adelaide Festival when it appears at Adelaide Oval on February 26 and 27, 2027. “I’m ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Listen to recordings by Maria Dueñas and Daniil Trifonov, works by Thomas Adès and Tania León, and more. London Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Adès, ...

Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House swept all before it, but there was plenty of extraordinary new music, exhilarating performances and triumphs of talent, commitment and resourcefulness across ...

Let us make the case that the most successful music conservatory is not in Paris, Vienna or Berlin but rather, in a house on a tree-lined street in Nottingham, England. It might be an unpretentious ...

"After he died, his body was dug up and moved seven times because people thought his fingers were possessed by the Devil" ...