James Levine was met with a round of applause during his return to the Metropolitan Opera after a long absence.
The Met’s maestro, James Levine, conducted Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte” Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera, with a bright young cast.
Following a European trend in the wake of overdose deaths, an electronic dance music festival near Atlanta will offer advice on safer practices for the use of party drugs like Ecstasy.
The Met’s new “Eugene Onegin,” directed by Fiona Shaw, opened on Monday in a drab production upstaged by critics protesting Russian laws intolerant of gays.
The Cuban pianist Roberto Fonseca worked with a six-piece combo at his show at the Highline Ballroom on Monday.
September 25, 2013
The top five albums on the Billboard 200 chart this week are all fresh releases, led by Jack Johnson’s “From Here to Now to You.”
September 25, 2013
Music that Benjamin Britten wrote in 1942 for a radio series about conditions in wartime Britain will be performed in public for the first time next month in Manchester, England.
September 24, 2013
James Levine was greeted to a thundering ovation as he returned to the conductor’s podium at the Metropolitan Opera after a two-year absence because of injury.
Despite strong voices, signals are mixed in new French productions of "Alceste" and "Lucia di Lammermoor."
The violinist Gil Morgenstern planned his latest Reflections Series program as a mandala, with Bach at the center.
Good things can happen after a band goes on hiatus.
Éliane Radigue’s music was featured in two concerts in New York last week and influenced a third.
A Russian-themed gala at Lincoln Center to celebrate Tchaikovsky’s “Eugene Onegin” has become a lightning rod for critics of Russia’s antigay laws.
Broadcast Music Inc. will report a 5 percent uptick in revenues to around $944 million for the year ended in June.
The New York Philharmonic performed music from “2001: A Space Odyssey” on Friday as part of a new initiative, “The Art of the Score.”
Vampire Weekend, promoting its latest album, brought its brand of rock to the Barclays Center.
James Levine is to return to the podium of the Met after an absence of more than two years brought on by health problems.
Mr. Rainwater was a classically trained pianist who turned to country music, then wrote and recorded the hits “Gonna Find Me a Bluebird” and “Whole Lotta Woman.”
Bargemusic’s Here and Now Series offered a program of works by Mohammed Fairouz, including pieces dedicated to Egypt and addressing an event in Syria.
James Levine has been his old, larger-than-life self in rehearsals leading up to his return to the Met podium on Tuesday, after more than two years.
Stanley Crouch discusses “Kansas City Lightning: The Rise and Times of Charlie Parker,” his book about Parker’s early life and social world.
Ben Ratliff and Larry Rohter discuss charged music-copyright developments surrounding both classic songs like “Money (That’s What I Want)” and current hits.
Ben Ratliff and Jon Caramanica discuss Kim Gordon and her first post-Sonic Youth project, Body/Head.
I’ve never considered myself a “woman composer,” but I suspect that over the years being female has helped more than it’s hurt.
Or how I began a song about animal swarms that ended up being a song about songs.
James Levine conducting the final dress rehearsal of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “Così Fan Tutte.”
A scene from the Act I finale of Mozart’s opera, in a dress rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera.
The opera’s new season opened with the American premiere of this work by the composer Mark-Anthony Turnage.
Scenes from a two-day festival in Hudson, N.Y., that featured music, literature and conceptual art.
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.
Anthony Tommasini, the chief classical music critic of The New York Times, explains an important musical technique.
Four Times critics pick the best albums and singles of the year.
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