In January, the master puppeteer Basil Twist and the eminent Baroque-music conductor William Christie came together for the first time, at Paris’s Opéra-Comique, for a delightful production of ...

Once largely confined to insular networks, contemporary Christian music is having a breakthrough moment on the pop charts with artists like Brandon Lake and Forrest Frank.

They’re saving country music from the musical summer I am having. I attended the inaugural music festival Biscuits and Banjos in Durham, N.C., last month.

Roots music has to make its way in from the outside, Macias says, but “this type of music, riding a wave, could become mainstream. Right now, commercial country is still dominant, but momentum ...