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Review: A Delightful ‘Orfeo’ Returns to the Met Opera

The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in a revival of Mark Morris’s witty, sensitively choreographed production.

Review: A Conductor’s Philharmonic Debut Is a Homecoming

Karina Canellakis, a born-and-raised New Yorker, led her hometown orchestra alongside another debut, of the pianist Alice Sara Ott.

Review: Two Electric Debuts at the New York Philharmonic

An exciting program featured the conductor Elim Chan and the cellist Sol Gabetta in a pairing of music by Martinu and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Revels, and Struggles, in Jazz

At Carnegie Hall, a program of Stravinsky, Weill and freely improvised Gershwin highlighted a dialogue between jazz and classical music.

‘The Chevalier’ Review: A Music-Theater Portrait of Joseph Boulogne

“The Chevalier,” an intriguing music-theater hybrid, unwraps the still little-known life and work of this 18th-century composer.

Review: New York Philharmonic Welcomes Back an Old Friend

David Robertson returned to the podium to lead the orchestra’s first in a series of performances to celebrate the centennial of Gyorgy Ligeti’s birth.

‘Doppelganger’ Review: A Soldier Confronts His Mortality

At the Park Avenue Armory, an imaginative and viscerally shocking staging of Schubert songs from the director Claus Guth and the tenor Jonas Kaufmann.

Review: Thanks to Chick Corea, the Trombone Is a Philharmonic Star

The jazz composer wrote a new concerto for the New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist, Joseph Alessi, but died before its U.S. premiere.

Review: Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra Gets Ambitious at Carnegie Hall

After decades away, the musicians, led by Kent Nagano, were back in the United States to perform works by Sean Shepherd, along with Beethoven and...

Review: The National Symphony Spotlights Forward Thinkers

Gianandrea Noseda led his Washington ensemble at Carnegie Hall in a trio of works by George Walker, Prokofiev and Stravinsky.