He was a mainstay at both the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, winning acclaim for his full tenor range and a ...

Stuart Burrows, who has died aged 92, was a former woodwork teacher and rugby player who rose from the Welsh valleys, via the ...

DVD Prices Have Dropped DVDs of classical music that used to cost about 200 yuan (US$24) can be bought for one-tenth that price today. Released by Poloarts Entertainment Co Ltd, a series of ...

John Nelson, an American conductor known for championing the work of romantic composer Hector Berlioz, including through a prizewinning recording he made of “Les Troyens” - an epic five-act ...

John Nelson, conductor who championed Berlioz, dies at 83 A former director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and leading interpreter of Berlioz, he was known for recording the epic opera ...

On Oct. 4, Luisi will lead the orchestra in Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, which Sir Georg Solti conducted at the first subscription concert of his tenure as Music Director in the early 1960s at ...

Pianist Browning has not been linked with any school, but favors Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert—German and Austrian composers that he feels he can “go into for 30 or 40 years and never ...

Heady Beethoven. Last fall, visiting Conductor Solti electrified San Francisco operagoers (“Taut, brilliant, masterly: wrote the San Francisco Chronicle’s Critic Alfred Frankenstein).

Ludwig van Beethoven, born 1770 in Bonn, Germany, moved to Vienna in 1792, and first made his name as a brilliant pianist and improvisor, only later establishing himself as a composer. His ...

Robert Pape on how, despite Israel’s murderous onslaught on Gaza, Hamas is winning (article here) • Wanda Bertram on how US incarceration rates stack up against the rest of the world (massively), and ...

Winner of the Sir Georg Solti Foundation’s highest conducting award, “Solti Conducting Fellow,” Mr. Kulenovic continues to attract attention from prominent orchestras worldwide.

Piano Concerto No 3 in C minor Op 37 Beethoven was thirty when he completed what’s now known as his Piano Concerto No 3. It was the first in a minor key, and the first to reject the dominant Mozartean ...