The composer’s final works, set to three poems by Hermann Hesse and one by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, view death not as ...

Season includes cellist Yo-Yo Ma, multi-Grammy Award-winning singer Joyce DiDonato, Minnesota’s own Dessa and Pink Floyd tribute.

Egoyan is known for conducting projects that examine the psycho-sexual behavior of its characters, a major example being ...

Like many eventual conservatives, the composer Richard Strauss (1864-1949) began as a radical, effectively reinventing the orchestral tone poem in the late 19th century, then testing the limits of ...

Sopranos Kirsten Chambers, Marcy Stonikas and Nina Warren are co-starring in Opera’s upcoming ‘Salome’ production ...

The Vienna Philharmonic returned to Southern California in fine form, conducted by Yannick Nezet-Seguin with Yefim Bronfman ...

The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director mounting a production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” that increasingly ...

In light-hearted movements, Nézet-Séguin traded smiles with first violins, fingers fluttering in tandem with their trills.

Lise Davidsen, one of opera’s biggest names, is preparing to leave the stage for a few months to give birth and spend time ...

Music director Franz Welser-Möst leads performances of Fifth Symphony, Leonore Overture No. 3 and Janáček suite.

It involves the use of a recurrent motto theme that appears with intervals throughout, recalling the idée fixe technique that Berlioz developed for his “Symphonie fantastique.” In fact, the idea for ...