Few art forms are as burdened by canons as classical music and opera. That, perhaps, is why I love to be surprised: to come ...

Despite inhospitable political conditions, orchestral music and opera thrived in 2025.

The year 2024 was an emotional roller coaster. Wars kept rampaging, a tortured election season further divided an already polarized nation and climate change served up the most scorching summer on ...

Naysayers be damned. Classical music on record continues to thrive, or so it seems judging from the plethora of boxed sets that have come our way this year. As ever, milestone birthdays were ...

Considered one of the greatest classical music composers of all time Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music career ended at the time of his death in 1791. Or so we thought, until archival researchers in ...

Since the pandemic began, I've not been going to concerts — as in none since March 2020 — until this year. So far, I've dodged the COVID bullet (yes, an outlier), though I'm still squeamish about ...