“We can’t make any music,” the singer and cellist Nina Garenetska said. “This is our life now: An air raid siren goes off.”
Category: Music
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Review: A Soprano’s Sound Floods the Met in ‘Ariadne’
Lise Davidsen unleashed rare grandeur of tone throughout her range in the title role of Strauss’s opera.
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Cécile McLorin Salvant’s Album Tackles a Newer Archive: Her Own
The vocalist who dares to take on older music with unsavory history turns inward on “Ghost Song,” her most revealing and rewarding album yet.
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Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star
In a program without soloist vehicles, the focus was on Herbert Blomstedt, a 94-year-old elder statesman of classical music.
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Joni James, Heartfelt Chanteuse of the 1950s, Dies at 91
A top-selling artist known as the “Queen of Hearts,” she had a voice tinged with longing and melancholy and was an early influence on Barbra Streisand.
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The Buzzy Band Wet Leg Trips Out at a Party, and 13 More New Songs
Hear tracks by Bartees Strange, La Marimba, Sharon Van Etten and others.
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A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit
The pianist and composer Eric Wubbels’s work has achieved new heights in an album of collaborations with two younger artists.
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He Break Dances. He Pole Dances. He Sings Like an Angel.
The Polish countertenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski has the credits you’d expect for a fast-rising classical music star, and some others you might not.
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Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led arts organizations to reconsider who performs, forcing them to confront questions about free speech and policing political views.
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Pressed on Putin, Russian Conductor Quits Bolshoi and French Post
Tugan Sokhiev, the Bolshoi’s music director, said he was “being asked to choose one cultural tradition” over another, at a moment Russian artists are under pressure to denounce Russia’s president.
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After a Punishing Sprint, Yannick Nézet-Séguin Can Celebrate
The Met Opera and Philadelphia Orchestra conductor recently took a break because of exhaustion. Then he found himself in the middle of a performance marathon.
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Metropolitan Opera Will Host Concert in Support of Ukraine
“We want Putin to know he is the enemy of artists and that we are united against his horrific actions,” the company’s general manager said.