Expressing ethnic identity was not exactly encouraged in the Soviet Union. But Aram Khachaturian got away with it.

The concerto was an appropriate nod to Dueñas’ acknowledged fascination with the great violinists of the past, as Jascha ...

Guntram, Richard Strauss’s first opera, didn’t bomb when it premiered in Weimar in 1894. That happened with the second ...

The Little Opera Theatre of New York has a curious production titled Zemlinsky’s Zimmer/Zemlinsky’s Room, which opened ...

Gustavo Dudamel conducted the New York Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. 7 Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee For the past four seasons, the New York Philharmonic has been in a ...

Evgeny Kissin performed Shostakovich’s Violin Sonata with Gidon Kremer Wednesday night at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Chris Lee At Carnegie Hall, the month of May is coming to a close with Shostakovich and ...

Arsen Soghomonyan as Hermann and Sonya Yoncheva as Lisa in Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Meytropolitan Opera. Photo: Ken Howard / Met Opera Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, which opened ...

Gustavo Dudamel led the New York Philharmonic in music of Stravinsky, Kate Soper, and Philip Glass Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee Gustavo Dudamel won’t become the New York ...