How music and literature helped Maria Kalesnikava survive five years of Belarusian prison ...

On Tuesday, the newspaper Badische Neueste Nachrichten announced the death of Hans Florian Messner at the age of 84. Messner was best known in musical circles for his connection to Pierre Boulez, for ...

In August 2023, the orchestral conductor Rebecca Bryant Novak began a doctor of musical arts degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. Bryant Novak, who had spent time working as a ...

One of the great joys of getting to know classical music is learning to recognize how funny it can be. Beethoven’s Eighth Symphony may not seem like a particularly interesting piece the first time you ...

On a recent warm autumn evening in Porto, the Russian-Armenian pianist Eva Gevorgyan performed before a crowd so spasmodic with coughing fits it may yet prove to be a locus of the next pandemic. The ...

Images from Hermann Hendrich’s “Scenes from Wagner’s Ring,” 1913 • Images: Public Domain / Animation: VAN When Richard Wagner’s Festspielhaus opened in Bayreuth in 1876, it boasted the latest in ...

Lefevre James Cranstone, “The Ohio River near Wheeling, West Virginia” (1859–60) • Image Public Domain With Trump’s tanks rolling down Pennsylvania Avenue and combat-fatigued foot soldiers guarding ...

At 85, Wendy Carlos remains an enigmatic figure in the world of classical music. Intensely private, she has not granted an interview request in over 15 years. When the first book-length treatment of ...

Etsurō Sotoo arrived in Barcelona in 1978, a classically trained Japanese sculptor who became captivated by the Sagrada Família. He began working there as a stonecutter, and over time, the ...

Wagner’s tetralogy is everywhere in Europe this season. But does the cycle lose its power when it’s omnipresent?

A train chugs along rhythmically, accompanied by otherworldly birds. Lazy chords blossom, like flowers from another world. A chaotic burbling morphs into an endless, glistening haze. These are just a ...

Giovanni Bellini, “Saint Francis in the Desert” (1480) • Image Public Domain “We have to find the Mystical Man,” my father said, in a room of Renaissance paintings on the ground floor of the recently ...