American Directors Bring Fresh Visions to Europe’s Opera Stages Young music theater makers are benefiting from the continent’s huge operatic resources while developing their own distinctive voices.
Best Classical Music Performances of 2022 The concert world, seemingly back to normal, saw Ukrainian musicians banding together, a new “Ring” at Bayreuth, and the opening of the revamped David Geffen Hall.
Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness The pianist and conductor turns 80 soon, but deteriorating health has kept him from the celebrations he had long planned.
Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’ All four parts of Wagner’s epic were presented within a week, in a new production by Dmitri Tcherniakov inspired by the work’s experimental roots.