In “The Yellow Tie,” a biopic about the Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache whose premiere I attended in London on Wednesday, things start badly and get steadily worse. We begin with old Celi (John ...

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads his last concerts as the San Francisco Symphony’s music director this week amid turmoil at the institution. Can the billionaire capital of the U.S. save its orchestra?

As administrators have tried to consolidate their control of the school, faculty have responded by unionizing. Meanwhile, an enrollment deficit looms. Where does this leave the school’s young ...

A hedge fund multimillionaire turned composer. A businessman with apparent links to the Russian state. A cohort of superstar performers all too happy to look the other way. Inside classical music’s ...

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

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 ...

In the spring of 2001, Suzanne Farrin auditioned for the Juilliard School’s prestigious composition program. The night after her audition, she says that Christopher Rouse, a faculty member at the time ...

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Directorial high-handedness is everywhere in the opera world. But new operas can only reach a wider audience when the staging realizes the qualities inherent in the work, rather than damaging or even ...

Of all the marginalized composers who’ve yet to receive the acclaim they deserve—and there are many—Florence Price is perhaps the one closest to getting her flowers.

Maria Kalesnikava (right) at a panel with Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska at the Beethovenfest Bonn on October 2 • Photo © Michael Staab Maria Kalesnikava, the ...

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 ...