Expressing ethnic identity was not exactly encouraged in the Soviet Union. But Aram Khachaturian got away with it.

The concerto was an appropriate nod to Dueñas’ acknowledged fascination with the great violinists of the past, as Jascha ...

Guntram, Richard Strauss’s first opera, didn’t bomb when it premiered in Weimar in 1894. That happened with the second ...

The Little Opera Theatre of New York has a curious production titled Zemlinsky’s Zimmer/Zemlinsky’s Room, which opened ...

Gustavo Dudamel conducted the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee For the past four seasons, the New York Philharmonic has been in a ...

Yuja Wang performed all five Rachmaninoff piano concertante works with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra Saturday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Long before this year’s ...

Emily D’Angelo stars as Jess in Jeanine Tesori’s Grounded at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera “If Odysseus came home every day,” sings fighter pilot Jess to her husband in Jeanine ...

Joyce DiDonato and Ryan McKinny in Jake Heggie’s Dead Man Walking at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera It was a long trek, but Dead Man Walking finally made it the last mile to the ...