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Bradley Cooper’s ‘Maestro’ Won’t Let Leonard Bernstein Fail

Bradley Cooper’s movie has an unrelenting focus on Bernstein’s marriage. What’s missing are his struggles as a musician.

Can One of Opera’s Greatest Singers Get Her Voice Back?

Anita Rachvelishvili, the once-blazing mezzo-soprano, has struggled with vocal problems since her pregnancy two years ago.

Trinity Church’s ‘Messiah’ Is Still the Gold Standard

The church’s urgent and eloquent version of Handel’s classic oratorio remains an inspired communal rite.

Review: Daniel Barenboim Misses His American Swan Song

The ailing conductor was to have led the Staatskapelle Berlin in Brahms’s symphonies at Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nézet-Séguin jumped in.

When Henry Kissinger Became an Opera Character

In 1987, “Nixon in China” meditated on what was then recent history, depicting Kissinger as a smooth diplomat with a brutal side.

Maria Callas Was Opera’s Defining Diva. She Still Is.

Callas would have turned 100 on Dec. 2. She and her flash of a career remain beacons of artistic integrity and profundity.

JACK Quartet Commits to Finding the Music

Its stylistic range, precision and passion have made the group one of contemporary music’s indispensable ensembles.

Review: The Philharmonic Feasts on ‘The Planets’

Under Dima Slobodeniouk, the orchestra played works by Holst and Ligeti and, for the first time, Julia Perry’s somber “Stabat Mater.”

Lise Davidsen Is an Opera Star Worth Traveling For

Her high notes emerging like shafts of sunlight, Davidsen is playing the title role in Janacek’s “Jenufa” at the struggling Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Review: ‘Florencia’ Brings Spanish Back to the Met Opera

Starring Ailyn Pérez, Daniel Catán’s heavily perfumed “Florencia en el Amazonas,” from 1996, is the company’s first work by a Latin American composer.