Christian Tetzlaff performed Elgar’s Violin Concerto with the Grant Park Orchestra Friday night at Millennium Park. Photo: Charles Osgood The Grant Park Music Festival hit cruising speed Friday night ...

Aaron Engebreth and Abagail Paschke in George Gershwin’s Of Thee I Sing, presented by Odyssey Opera. Photo: Kathy Wittman What has been harder to come by of late, and not just locally, are ...

String quartets come and go, but some have made a major cultural impact by their sheer longevity. Fewer still have made such an impact with their membership intact. The Emerson Quartet began decades ...

Flora Hawk and Jonathan Michie star in the world premiere of Damien Geter’s Loving v. Virginia at Virginia Opera. Photo: Dave Pearson Virginia Opera is marking its golden anniversary season in the ...

Mary Elizabeth Williams stars in the world premiere of Edmond Dédé’s Morgiane, presented by Opera Lafayette Monday night. Photo: Jennifer Packard/Opera Lafayette In most seasons Opera Lafayette ...

Riccardo Muti led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in music of Bellini, Schubert and Tchaikovsky Thursday night at the Arsht Center in Miami. Photo: Todd Rosenberg Endless repetitions of standard ...

Rosina (Emily Fons) cavorts with Dr. Bartolo (Kevin Burdette), Almaviva (Jack Swanson), Berta (Murrella Parton), and Figaro (Joshua Hopkins) as Basilio (Nicholas Newton) looks on in Santa Fe Opera’s ...

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 ...

In the classical music world, compositions titled “Passion” usually have a very specific focus—the story of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion and death. American composer David Lang reveres many of those ...

In some concertos, soloist and orchestra fall in love. In some, they weave tapestries. In some, they travel different roads toward a common goal. And in some, they make war. Not infrequently in ...

Wotan’s dilemma in Die Walküre, the second opera of Wagner’s Ring cycle, is a product of circumstance. He desires the ring, now in possession of the giant-turned-dragon Fafner, though he can only ...

Some chamber music fans prefer the communal, no-stars ethos of an organization like the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Others like the interplay of big personalities when famous soloists get ...