It’s easy to wring your hands about the decline of the field. It’s more helpful to support it.

The pianist demonstrates chaotic brilliance, on stage and off.

Two musicians were fired for sexual misconduct. Why are they back with the orchestra?

Writer and critic

He was in his 30s when fingers in his right hand suddenly stopped working, but remained a gifted performer while gaining renown as a conductor and teacher.

Orchestras use it to reach new audiences, but John Williams’s music stands the test of time.

“Intermezzo” reflects the in-between spaces (and, alas, gaps) in the orchestra’s transformation.

Dear Philadelphia Orchestra Musicians and Philadelphia Orchestra, dear Curtis Institute, and dear other classical music organizations and orchestra musicians’ collectives:

“Hallelujah”: A primer for everyone who wants to learn about what they’ve been missing.

In doubling down on his defense of Plácido Domingo, the Met Opera’s general manager privileged one powerful, profitable man over the well-being of everyone else.

Conductor apologizes to women after Washington Post report.

The hypocrisy of classical music’s enablers.

We’ve heard about the best albums — what about composers?

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Elevating the conductor to savior status only enabled the alleged abuse of young musicians.

Kim, a South Korean native, speaks six languages, and began conducting as a way to present her own compositions.

The internationally acclaimed opera and theatre director, playwright, librettist, actor, and educator takes the reins of the prestigious music conservatory’s respected opera program.

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Diversity is a major problem, yes. But so is the whole way opera companies go about presenting new work.

The world’s greatest conductor and orchestra celebrate 125 years by taking their show on the road.

The eclectic radio program that has influenced New York’s music scene since 1982 is going off the air.

Under conductor Carlos Kalmar, the CIM hoped to become a mecca of orchestral training. So why are some students now in open revolt?

After being diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension at 20, she endured two double transplants while pursuing her dream of an operatic career.

Release Cara from her NDA imposed by the New York Philharmonic

Carla Hayden will make history as the first African-American in the role—and the first woman

Article profiles soprano Mirella Freni, who appears tonight in Metropolitan Opera performance of Giordano's Fedora; 67-year-old diva discusses care of voice that has made unusually long career...