CLASSICAL MUSIC - PLAYS

by Peter Danish - June 10, 2026

There are performances of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony that impress through sheer scale. There are others that astonish through architectural clarity. And then there are the rare evenings that somehow manage both. ...

by Steve Callahan - June 09, 2026

Opera Theatre of St. Louis does luscious justice to A Streetcar Named Desire—André Previn’s operatic adaptation of the Tennessee Williams classic....

by Roger Catlin - May 26, 2026

The separation of the Washington National Opera from the overrun-and-soon-to-close  Kennedy Center has meant next season’s eight planned productions, including five full length operas, will occur on five different stages in the D.C. area. ...

by Courtney Castelino - May 11, 2026

What did our critic think of WENWEN DU AND IAN BOSTRIDGE IN RECITAL at Carlton Dominion-Chalmers Centre?...

by Joanna Barouch - May 09, 2026

Leon Botstein has a special aptitude for finding under-appreciated and rarely (if ever) performed works for orchestra. While it must be understood that not everything committed to paper by any composer is a jewel of perfection....

by Peter Danish - May 02, 2026

What did our critic think of 'CHANGED FOR GOOD' THE NEW YORK POPS 43RD ANNIVERSARY CONCERT at Carnegie Hall?...

by Natalia Jarczynska - April 22, 2026

What can you do with a 90-year-old piece about a man madly in love, slowly slipping into a dream he has no desire to wake up from? Quite a lot, it turns out....

by Alexandre DIACONU - April 20, 2026

Some evenings remind you why opera exists. LUCREZIA BORGIA at Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège did exactly that, in a space that feels fully aligned with what opera stands for, vocal mastery, ritual, and a visual world built to carry myth sized emotion....

by Ron Bierman - April 03, 2026

Carmen is the world’s third most performed opera. Its tale of the doomed love affair between an innocent young soldier and a beguiling young woman unconstrained by conventional beliefs was seen in more than 6,000 productions on five continents last year. This performance was in the opera’s origi...

by Peter Danish - March 16, 2026

On March 10 at Carnegie Hall, the Philadelphia Orchestra brought Gustav Mahler’s towering Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection,” to New York under the direction of its music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin....