Known for her interpretations of Bach, Mozart and Weber, she was praised for her clear, bright voice and her perfect intonation even on the highest...

He was among those targeted by the investigation that consumed much of Bill Clinton’s presidency. But his conviction was later questioned.

A much-decorated French filmmaker, he divided audiences and critics with explorations, often darkly comic but brutal, of misogyny and the male sexual imagination.

Prime Minister Michel Barnier will most likely remain as a caretaker until a replacement is named. But the vote could further unsettle credit markets and...

His literary career traced the arc of his country’s modern political journey in stories about ordinary citizens facing repression and arbitrary government.

He led his country’s principal orchestras and major orchestras elsewhere in Europe. He also mystified his countrymen with an unstoppable flow of symphonies.

Born in Paris to Italian parents and raised in Germany, she had her own show on television in the 1950s and was later a small-screen...

As an executive at Columbia and RCA Records, he popularized the classics for mass audiences by applying the same techniques used to sell pop music.

His publication, Tikkun, was a leading voice for left-wing American Jews. His ideas about “the politics of meaning” were embraced by Hillary Clinton.

He began playing as a child and quickly found success for his technical command and, as one critic put it, his “thoughtful elegance.”