Classical Music in NYC This Week Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera. By DAVID ALLEN
Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh An exquisite multidisciplinary performance piece blurs the senses in considering the life and work of this Dutch artist. By BEN BRANTLEY
Critic's Notebook A Weekend Can Span Centuries at Tanglewood Our critic’s visit to the Boston Symphony’s home in the Berkshires began with Purcell’s 17th-century “Fairy Queen” and ended with a work from 2015. By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Reporter's Notebook Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia From a German Opera House Ruminating on a storied German opera festival’s troubled past, only to learn at intermission that Nazi sympathizers were on the march back home. By MICHAEL COOPER
Cue the Carrots! Strike Up the Squash! The musicians of the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra make their instruments from things that grow in the garden. By ANNIE CORREAL
Review: A Funky Rethinking of Schubert’s Winter Journey Netia Jones’s staging of Hans Zender’s “composed interpretation” at Mostly Mozart added several layers of concept to the song cycle “Winterreise.” By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Critic's Notebook Finally, a Well-Staged ‘Don Giovanni’ in New York Ivan Fischer’s version, with his Budapest Festival Orchestra, returns to Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart festival next week after a run in 2011. By JAMES JORDEN
Dell’Arte Opera Offers a Cavalli to Fill a Summer Lull The company, known for fresh productions of classics, presents the 1651 opera “La Calisto” at La MaMa through Aug. 26. By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM
Classical Music in NYC This Week Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera. By DAVID ALLEN
Review: William Kentridge’s Triumphant ‘Wozzeck’ Will Come to the Met Opera Covering the stage in charcoal animations, the artist has created his most elegant and powerful operatic treatment yet for this Berg work. By ZACHARY WOOLFE
Metropolitan Diary Support for a Stranger Sometimes you lend a hand, or two, without even realizing it.
Letters Trump, Symphonies, ISIS and Pop Music Readers discuss a comment by the president comparing Western and Islamic culture: “We write symphonies.”
Santa Monica Symphony Roiled by Conservative Guest Conductor An orchestra fund-raiser turns political for some with the choice of a guest conductor: the radio host and columnist Dennis Prager. By SOPAN DEB
Review: Anna Netrebko Sings Her First ‘Aida’ in Salzburg The soprano was careful and earnest in a coolly impersonal production conducted by Riccardo Muti and directed by the celebrated visual artist Shirin Neshat. By ZACHARY WOOLFE
The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer Mr. Denk shares insights into the delicate subtleties and intricate refinements of the Romantic genius. By JEREMY DENK
Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra partnered with So Percussion, the brilliant percussion quartet, for an exhilarating David Lang concerto that used found objects. By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Mostly Mozart Remixes a Schubert Soiree The Mostly Mozart Festival in New York is presenting a radical re-creation of the legendary Viennese musical soirees featuring Schubert and his fellow artists. By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Classical Music in NYC This Week Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera. By DAVID ALLEN
Review: A New ‘Meistersinger’ in Bayreuth Stars Wagner This jovially surreal new production by Barrie Kosky, the festival’s first Jewish director in 141 years, unfolds in a Germany that combines the 16th, 19th and 20th centuries. By ZACHARY WOOLFE
Review: Flawed but Fascinating Dvorak Opera in a Rare Staging The conductor Leon Botstein, a champion of overlooked works, brings Dvorak’s seldom-performed “Dimitrij” to Bard SummerScape. By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Classical Music in NYC This Week Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera. By DAVID ALLEN
Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh An exquisite multidisciplinary performance piece blurs the senses in considering the life and work of this Dutch artist. By BEN BRANTLEY
Critic's Notebook A Weekend Can Span Centuries at Tanglewood Our critic’s visit to the Boston Symphony’s home in the Berkshires began with Purcell’s 17th-century “Fairy Queen” and ended with a work from 2015. By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Reporter's Notebook Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia From a German Opera House Ruminating on a storied German opera festival’s troubled past, only to learn at intermission that Nazi sympathizers were on the march back home. By MICHAEL COOPER
Cue the Carrots! Strike Up the Squash! The musicians of the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra make their instruments from things that grow in the garden. By ANNIE CORREAL
Review: A Funky Rethinking of Schubert’s Winter Journey Netia Jones’s staging of Hans Zender’s “composed interpretation” at Mostly Mozart added several layers of concept to the song cycle “Winterreise.” By JAMES R. OESTREICH
Critic's Notebook Finally, a Well-Staged ‘Don Giovanni’ in New York Ivan Fischer’s version, with his Budapest Festival Orchestra, returns to Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart festival next week after a run in 2011. By JAMES JORDEN
Dell’Arte Opera Offers a Cavalli to Fill a Summer Lull The company, known for fresh productions of classics, presents the 1651 opera “La Calisto” at La MaMa through Aug. 26. By CORINNA da FONSECA-WOLLHEIM
Classical Music in NYC This Week Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera. By DAVID ALLEN
Review: William Kentridge’s Triumphant ‘Wozzeck’ Will Come to the Met Opera Covering the stage in charcoal animations, the artist has created his most elegant and powerful operatic treatment yet for this Berg work. By ZACHARY WOOLFE
Metropolitan Diary Support for a Stranger Sometimes you lend a hand, or two, without even realizing it.
Letters Trump, Symphonies, ISIS and Pop Music Readers discuss a comment by the president comparing Western and Islamic culture: “We write symphonies.”
Santa Monica Symphony Roiled by Conservative Guest Conductor An orchestra fund-raiser turns political for some with the choice of a guest conductor: the radio host and columnist Dennis Prager. By SOPAN DEB
Review: Anna Netrebko Sings Her First ‘Aida’ in Salzburg The soprano was careful and earnest in a coolly impersonal production conducted by Riccardo Muti and directed by the celebrated visual artist Shirin Neshat. By ZACHARY WOOLFE
The Pianist Jeremy Denk on the Joys of Chopin, Our Most Catlike Composer Mr. Denk shares insights into the delicate subtleties and intricate refinements of the Romantic genius. By JEREMY DENK
Wine Bottles, Twigs and Trash Cans Join the Mostly Mozart Orchestra The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra partnered with So Percussion, the brilliant percussion quartet, for an exhilarating David Lang concerto that used found objects. By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Mostly Mozart Remixes a Schubert Soiree The Mostly Mozart Festival in New York is presenting a radical re-creation of the legendary Viennese musical soirees featuring Schubert and his fellow artists. By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Classical Music in NYC This Week Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera. By DAVID ALLEN
Review: A New ‘Meistersinger’ in Bayreuth Stars Wagner This jovially surreal new production by Barrie Kosky, the festival’s first Jewish director in 141 years, unfolds in a Germany that combines the 16th, 19th and 20th centuries. By ZACHARY WOOLFE
Review: Flawed but Fascinating Dvorak Opera in a Rare Staging The conductor Leon Botstein, a champion of overlooked works, brings Dvorak’s seldom-performed “Dimitrij” to Bard SummerScape. By ANTHONY TOMMASINI