Classical Newsletter

The visa process for visiting artists has always been complicated and expensive. Under the current administration, it's gotten significantly worse.

There aren't a lot of well-known operas celebrating the richness of the Black American experience. The Black Opera Project from Cincinnati Opera is looking to change that.

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in.

Pianist Lara Downes and Pulitzer-winning author Salamishah Tillet discuss Nina Simone and one of her best-known songs at her lovingly restored birthplace in Tryon, N.C.

The French pianists celebrate more than a half century of recording together with a triple-disc set containing many brand new tracks.

Harpo Marx — the "silent" Marx brother — can finally be heard speaking in a live album of recently recovered material, which was recorded just six months before he died in 1964.

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck's joint project, which took more than 20 years to finalize, sees them collaborate with other folk musicians and singers.

The mischievous visionary offers a career-spanning set with nods to dogs, the stars and her late husband, Lou Reed.

When John Cage composed an opera commemorating the American bicentennial audiences walked out. Now, it's being reinterpreted by new artists in a Detroit Opera production, as the nation turns 250.

Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead to be reunited with her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera.