Opera Review
We’re Nothing but Busts, Mozart. Busts!
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
“The Classical Style,” an opera buffa performed Thursday at Zankel Hall, casts chords as characters along with Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart in a playful riff on harmony.
“The Classical Style,” an opera buffa performed Thursday at Zankel Hall, casts chords as characters along with Beethoven, Haydn and Mozart in a playful riff on harmony.
In selecting a group led by Michael Capasso, the board of the bankrupt opera passed over proposals including those by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Purchase College.
Filling in for Christoph von Dohnanyi, Krzysztof Urbanski, the music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra made a sturdy debut conducting the Philharmonic.
Sharon Jones and her band, the Dap-Kings, joined other acts on the Daptone Records roster on Thursday for the opener in a three-night stand at the Apollo Theater.
In a reminder of hip-hop’s politically potent past, two performers strike a chord by sharing their emotions on a shooting in Ferguson, Mo.
A selected, critical guide to classical music performances in New York City.
A selected, critical guide to performances of rock, pop, cabaret and more in New York City.
They each earned six nominations, including album of the year.
In “On Behalf of Nature,” Meredith Monk’s dance becomes a provocative advocate for the natural world.
The show really began when the program was over, and the violinist Itzhak Perlman began to flip through encore options.
The Metropolitan Opera is retiring Otto Schenk’s staging of “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg,” and James Levine is conducting its final performances.
Annaleigh Ashford juggles a cabaret act at 54 Below with her Broadway role in “You Can’t Take It With You” and her TV role as Betty in “Masters of Sex.”
Mr. McLagan was a keyboardist with the Small Faces and later the Faces, and a sideman who traveled widely in rock circles, working with Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen.
The 2002 album “Philadelphia Chickens,” by the children’s writer Sandra Boynton, has now earned platinum status.
Ms. Barry and her sister Merna were Yiddish singers who rose to international fame and appeared numerous times on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
A compromise in Turin, Italy, will keep the music director of Teatro Regio in his post.
Natalie Dessay embodied a mature Cleopatra in excerpts from “Giulio Cesare” with Le Concert d’Astrée on Sunday at Alice Tully Hall.
Mr. Keys was a self-taught musician who never learned to read music but recorded with a Who’s Who of rock. One of his most memorable moments was a howling solo on “Brown Sugar.”
New albums from Wu-Tang Clan and AC/DC show that these established groups are still in charge of their sounds.
The best present ideas, selected by Times experts, to make shopping easy this season.
This is the world premiere of “December Day” a collection of favorite songs from Willie Nelson and his sister Bobbie Nelson, due out Dec. 2 from Legacy Recordings.
Jon Caramanica and Ben Ratliff discuss Mary J. Blige and her new album, “The London Sessions.”
The 20-year-old East Flatbush rapper Bobby Shmurda has just jumped to No. 6 from No. 8 on the Billboard chart.
Times critics share what they’ve been listening to lately.
How to wade through the crush of culture coming your way this season? Here’s a guide to 100 events that have us especially excited, in order of appearance.
Is a doodle on the bass part of the “New World” Symphony an 1893 sketch of Dvorak?
Nicole Kidman in Roberto Cavalli, Faith Hill in Naeem Khan, and more at the Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday night.
Unseen film reels of Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy are locked away in a limestone mine called Iron Mountain. Filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus want to give them a new home.
Get a selection of the listings on your iPhone with The Scoop, The Times’s free guide to what to eat, see and do in New York.