Korngold's VIOLANTA will premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Schoenberg's monumental choral-symphonic work 'Gurrelieder' ...

Pioneering Dutch choreographer who fused classical and modern ballet styles into stripped back movement The Dutch choreographer Hans van Manen, who has died aged 93, was a pioneering and prolific ...

FOR THE EARS The 12 Tones of Anton Webern “Fest” may not be the noun that seems most immediately obvious to put after “Anton Webern” in coining a concert title, but Chatter is out to prove that it ...

When Alban Berg's opera "Wozzeck" was first seen in Berlin 100 years ago, it jolted its audience with a musical twist. Opera fans were used to modern works that abandoned traditional ideas of form and ...

The most luridly erotic of all opera heroines has yet to appear on any opera stage. Beside her, Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth of Mzensk would seem a rural innocent (TIME, Feb. 11). The adulterous Marie ...

Many listeners attest to strong connections between music and memory – after all, important life events often have a musical accompaniment. Composers through the centuries have been aware of this too.

Manhattan’s Victorian, red-and-gilt Metropolitan Opera House was transformed one night last week into a nightmarish, shriekingly demented world of sight and sound. The occasion: the Met’s long overdue ...

Tempo is the premier English-language journal devoted to 20th-century and contemporary concert music. Literate and scholarly articles, often illustrated with music examples, explore many aspects of ...

Karina Canellakis conducted the New York Philharmonic Thursday night at David Geffen Hall. Photo: Chris Lee The ocean was a little dry Thursday night at David Geffen Hall, but heaven was open for ...

“WERE I A gambling man,” Glenn Gould said in 1966, “I would be very inclined to place my money on the prospects for immortality of Arnold Schoenberg above and beyond any other composer who’s lived in ...