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The Metropolitan Opera opens its 128th season next week with a work new to the company, Donizetti's Anna Bolena. Anna Netrebko stars in the title role,…

A lot of concerts. A lot of operas. A lot of new recordings and videos on the market. A lot of celebration. I was born in 1956 so I don't remember…

Music writer Lucy Jones began a recent story in Britain's Daily Telegraph with this description of a nightclub: No, it wasn't the newest techno club on…

Most of us are at least passingly familiar with the story of the city of Pompeii. When Mt. Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, Pompeii was burned and buried in…

As the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring approaches, commentator Miles Hoffman reminds us that — as earthshaking as that…

The Columbus Symphony presents Romeo and Juliet program for Valentine's weekend, February 14 and 15, 8 PM in the Ohio Theater. Come an hour early, have…

My graduating class at Lexington (MA) High School in 1974 has members born great, who became great and who greatness thrust upon them. The only thing I…

In the three previous Mozart Minute episodes, Mozart complained bitterly in letters to his father about the people, the musical politics and even the…

As one of the finest opera composers the world has ever known, Wolfgang Mozart also turned his lyric gift to the art of song. One particular song shows…

Some people live life carefully. They do everything they think is right. They fit in. They don't make waves. Few composers embrace conformity, but all of…