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 ...

María Dueñas performed Korngold’s Violin Concerto with David Afkham conducting the Teatro Real Orchestra Thursday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Fadi Kheir Concerts by the Orchestra of Madrid’s Teatro ...

Dudamel is leading the Philharmonic’s closing weeks, and the season’s final subscription program was Mahler’s Symphony No. 7, ...

Evgeny Kissin performed Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata with Gidon Kremer Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee At Carnegie Hall, the month of May is coming to a close with Shostakovich and ...

Corinne Winters is Mimi in the Metropolitan Opera production of Puccini’s La Bohème. Photo: Scott Suchman/Washington National Opera Mimi’s fragility was instantly evident when Winters alarmingly ...

Arsen Soghomonyan as Hermann and Sonya Yoncheva as Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Meytropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, which opened ...