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

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 ...

Bahman Saless conducted the Boulder Chamber Orchestra Sunday night in Zankel Hall. Photo: Keith Bobo In a program that swung from the Continental Divide to the Nile in a single bound, the Boulder ...

Juilliard415 performed Sunday at Corpus Christi Church in the Music Before 1800 series. Photo: Tatiana Daubek Introducing Music Before 1800’s season finale Sunday afternoon at Corpus Christi Church, ...

Jack Swanson (left) as Count Almaviva and Andrey Zhilikhovsky as Figaro in Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Jonathan Tichler / Met Opera The Metropolitan Opera has ...

Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry were soloists in Kevin Puts’s The Brightess of Light with Brett Mitchell conducting the New York Philharmonic Friday night. Photo: Brandon Patoc Whatever else one says ...

Orson Van Gay II as Faust and Rachel Kobernick as Marguerite in Heartbeat Opera’s production of Gounod’s Faust. Photo: Andrew Boyle Heartbeat Opera’s new production of Charles Gounod’s Faust,which ...