What followed is a 55-year love affair with classical music — branching out to discover greats like Brahms, Bruch, Mahler, Chopin, Copland, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff and Elgar as well as lesser known ...

With her emotion-evoking operatic range and soprano heights, Dominican opera singer Zuly Inirio is challenging whose voice is embodied and heard throughout the genre. She first saw an opera — “La ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Fall Preview Osvaldo Golijov’s Lorca-inspired opera comes to New York, and the pianist Igor Levit plays with the Cleveland Orchestra, among other ...

But, counterintuitive though it might seem, I don’t think sound is always a helpful way to understand genre. I’m a composer and conductor in the field that’s broadly known as Western classical music, ...

“Summertime and the livin’ is easy,” George Gershwin wrote, with lyrics by his brother Ira Gershwin and husband-and-wife duo, DuBose and Dorothy Heyward. It’s also the time for a great selection of ...

When Opera in the Heights opens its 2025-2026 season on Friday, it does so with an ambitious slate of programming and a new leader at the helm. Earlier this summer, Kathryn Frady was named the ...