On Friday, after a day for pianists to practice and listeners to rest their ears, Tuesday’s contestants will return to take a last swing at medals in concertos by Beethoven, Rachmaninoff and Brahms, ...

Angel Stanislav Wang, 22, of the United States was the evening’s standout performer, with a lucid, meaningful rendering of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major with the Fort Worth Symphony ...

Whatever troubling things may have been going on in the world outside, Symphony Hall was enveloped in a pink cloud of hope and gratitude Thursday night, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed ...

Eugene Izotov is leaving his post as principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to take up the same position with the San Francisco Symphony in the 2015-16 season, the SFS announced Monday ...

The annual Ravinia Women’s Board Gala has a place in musical lore as the occasion in 1999 when a 17-year-old pianist debuted to clamorous popular and critical acclaim as a last minute sub for the ...

When Paul Curran’s production of La Donna del Lago opened at Santa Fe Opera in 2013, it was met with widespread acclaim. His simple, hillside set capitalized on the festival’s outdoor setting, leaving ...

Jaap van Zweden conducted the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 Thursday night. Photo: Todd Rosenberg With multiple street closures and exits off the Drive shut down for a race in ...

A hundred and eleven years ago, a ballet audience in Paris experienced “the shock of the new” as never before, when the primitive rhythms and dissonances of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring ...

One can’t accuse the Ravinia Festival of wrapping this summer season with an easy-going evening of Beethoven or Tchaikovsky. Rather, the populist multi-genre music festival closed its classical season ...

Bartlett Sher’s production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann made a mixed impression at the Metropolitan Opera when it was introduced last December, but it was born under unfavorable stars. For diverse reasons ...

For twenty years Will Crutchfield led an accomplished bel canto opera series as part of the summer festival at Caramoor. Last summer, by mutual consent they parted ways, Crutchfield looking to expand ...