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Lincoln Center’s Rebranded Orchestra Settles Into Its Debut Season

Compared with previous seasons, recent concerts by the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center were refreshingly casual, but also more mixed.

Review: Grand Opera Makes a Comeback With ‘Le Prophète’

Meyerbeer, one of the 19th century’s most popular composers, is out of fashion today. But his work is receiving a rare revival at Bard College.

Review: ‘Robeson’ Illuminates a Titanic Artist and Activist

Davóne Tines plays Paul Robeson in a solo show on Little Island that weaves together the words and music of this American hero to tell...

Review: Lise Davidsen Achieves Strauss’s Ideal in ‘Salome’

Strauss had seemingly impossible standards for a soprano in “Salome.” But Davidsen, making her role debut in Paris, is exactly what he intended.

Review: ‘The Hours’ Returns to the Met Opera With Its Stars

Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato reprised their roles in Kevin Puts’s adaptation of the award-winning novel and film.

Review: Gustavo Dudamel Saves the Day at the Philharmonic

Dudamel, the New York Philharmonic’s incoming music and artistic director, stepped in after a guest conductor fell ill.

Review: John Adams’s ‘El Niño’ Arrives at the Met in Lush Glory

The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop.

Review: Under Manfred Honeck, the Philharmonic Becomes One

In a program of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, a guest conductor coaxes a sumptuous sincerity from the orchestra’s musicians.

Review: Jonathan Tetelman Arrives at the Met in ‘La Rondine’

The tenor sang the role of Ruggero in a revival of Puccini’s opera that was performed with such restraint, it verged on overly careful.

‘Winterreise’ Review: Hiding a Roiling Grief

On Friday, the pianist Mitsuko Uchida and the tenor Mark Padmore illuminated the bleakness of Schubert’s genre-defining song cycle at Zankel Hall.