Tuesday night, it was Riley as composer, represented by a contemporary work and an early masterpiece. Chase played excerpts ...

At first glance, the program might be described as “contemporary conventional,” with its generous helpings of lauded present-day composers (Gabriela Ortiz and Terence Blanchard), a nod to a recent ...

Champion, the first opera by Terence Blanchard, composer of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, made its eagerly anticipated Metropolitan Opera debut Monday night to warm applause. In the end, however, the ...

“If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine Tesori’s unsettling opera Grounded, which opened the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season Monday night, “it would ...

Concerts by the Orchestra of Madrid’s Teatro Real are becoming regular events in New York. The orchestra’s appearance on Thursday evening at Carnegie Hall marked its third performance here since 2022.

Most performances of the Seventh shoot for atmosphere—the symphony is packed with weirdness and unexpected moods—and conductors try to shoehorn the sequence of five movements into a linear narrative ...

Akhnaten, the last opera in Philip Glass’s trilogy of science, politics, and religion, finally made it to the Metropolitan Opera Friday night. (The Met presented Satyagraha in 2011, and back in 1976 ...

Long before this year’s movie awards are handed out, fans of pianist Yuja Wang were accustomed to the idea of a Chinese superheroine doing everything, everywhere, all at once. But even they might have ...

Ensemble Connect returned to Weil Recital Hall with a program of chamber music equally divided between the romantic and the contemporary. The Schumann and Brahms were lovely and expertly performed, ...

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Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, which opened Friday night as the final production of this season, has a short but notable history at the Metropolitan Opera. Its premiere house performances were ...