The Podcasts Opera Pros Tune To
“Aria Code” is an increasingly popular podcast. But what else do opera professionals listen to? Here are some recommendations. (Their comments, by email, [...]
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A Lot of Classical Music and Opera to Hear This Season
The coming classical music season has an unsettled quality, a sense of a culture trying to orient itself in the midst of crisis. [...]
It’s Never Too Late to Ditch the City and Run a Farm
“It’s Never Too Late” is a new series that tells the stories of people who decide to pursue their dreams on their own [...]
Review: ‘The Threepenny Opera’ Returns Home, Liberated
BERLIN — “I’m not asking for an opera here,” the notorious criminal Macheath says at his wedding, early in a work that happens [...]
Jan Lisiecki, Piano’s Doogie Howser, Comes of Age With Chopin
The Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki started out as something of the Doogie Howser of classical music. He was signed by the august record [...]
5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Stravinsky
In the past, we’ve chosen the five minutes or so we would play to make our friends fall in love with classical music, [...]
As Bang on a Can Returns, a New Generation Rises
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Venturing back to live performances and finding a classical music institution in rude health can be like putting on [...]
She Was Music’s Greatest Teacher. And Much More.
For several months in 1916, the sisters Nadia and Lili Boulanger stayed together at the Villa Medici in Rome. A residency at the [...]
5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now
Sigismondo d’India: ‘Lamenti e Sospiri’ Mariana Flores and Julie Roset, sopranos; Cappella Mediterranea; Leonardo García Alarcón, director (Ricercar) Sigismondo d’India was a young [...]
Mimi Stern-Wolfe, Presenter of Socially Conscious Concerts, Dies at 84
Mimi Stern-Wolfe, a pianist and conductor who specialized in music programs with a social-justice or political theme, most notably an annual concert that [...]