Performances in N.Y.C. Kaija Saariaho’s “Innocence” was celebrated at its premiere. After her death in 2023, her collaborators continue to travel with it around the world. The composer Kaija Saariaho ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Thomas Adès is obsessed with sound color, as he vividly demonstrated with the assistance of the unflappable Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus (expertly prepared by Lisa Wong) in his ...

Last night, the New York Philharmonic offered a program with an accent on the mysterious and the French. Guest-conducting was Karina Canellakis, an American born in 1981. She was trained as a ...

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ARIANA MATER, the opera by Kaija Saariaho who died from a brain tumor last summer at 70, won this year's Grammy for Best Opera Recording, with a French language libretto by Amin Maalouf. It was issued ...

The Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud announced its 2024-25 season Thursday, featuring musicians from across the country. St. John’s Episcopal Church will host the season opener at 7:30 p.m. on Oct.

Mitsuko Uchida appeared every night at her edition of the Ojai Music Festival. The rest of the time was given to other performers. By Joshua Barone By Gabe Cohn Feats, farewells and musical treasures ...

The weather was a pleasure. While much of the rest of the country roasted, San Francisco last weekend appeared a beatific city lorded over by mild yet sunny cerulean skies and ideally chilly nights.

Director Yuval Sharon shakes up opera—his groundbreaking “Hopscotch” (2015) performed in 24 cars driving around Los Angeles was just an opening salvo. In his current project, “The Comet / Poppea,” ...

The formidable Ojai Music Festival has returned to the Ojai Music Festival (OMF) business at hand. Birds, unpaid and uncharted freelancers, chirp along in the idyllic venue of the Libby Bowl, along ...

Beate Mordal as Student #2 (Lilly), Julie Hega as Student #3 (Iris), Rowan Kievits as Student #4 (Anton), Camilo Delgado Díaz as Student #5 (Jerónimo), and Marina Dumont as Sudent #6 (Alexia) in ...

SAN FRANCISCOSAN FRANCISCO — An uneasy orchestral prelude sets the mood: muffled percussion, brooding woodwinds, anguished strings. The curtain rises and the first ...