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Tyshawn Sorey’s “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife),” written for the Rothko Chapel in Houston, becomes longer and grander for the Park Avenue Armory.

With ticket prices for performing arts rising, could fresh approaches like pay-what-you-can increase access and foster more adventurous programming?

The mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo doubled down on melancholy in a superb concert at the Park Avenue Armory.

This composer’s latest stage work, at San Francisco Opera, is his most straightforward, but also his least inspired.

“I certainly never planned on being a music director in a time of war,” says Hobart Earle, who has conducted this Ukrainian orchestra for 30...

The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, convened just a month ago, shows its defiance with sophistication, craft, rigor and subtlety.

Classical music’s pre-eminent annual event had more revivals than usual, but also a breathless new staging of Janacek’s “Kat’a Kabanova.”

Valentin Schwarz’s production of the four-opera epic presents human characters with relations even more tangled than usual.

“Castor and Patience,” a work by Gregory Spears and Tracy K. Smith with an intense yet relaxed score, premieres at Cincinnati Opera.

A new festival moves away from a genre that has been central to the performing arts center’s identity for decades.