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‘This House’: An Intimate, Intergenerational Opera Is Also a Family Affair

Ricky Ian Gordon and Lynn Nottage tell the story of three generations in a Harlem home. Enter a second Nottage generation, her daughter, on the...

Review: New York Philharmonic, Renée Fleming and a Sub Conductor

Brett Mitchell led the New York Philharmonic in the local premiere of a song cycle by Kevin Puts, featuring the soprano Renée Fleming.

Review: A Delightful ‘Orfeo’ Returns to the Met Opera

The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in a revival of Mark Morris’s witty, sensitively choreographed production.

Review: A Conductor’s Philharmonic Debut Is a Homecoming

Karina Canellakis, a born-and-raised New Yorker, led her hometown orchestra alongside another debut, of the pianist Alice Sara Ott.

Review: Two Electric Debuts at the New York Philharmonic

An exciting program featured the conductor Elim Chan and the cellist Sol Gabetta in a pairing of music by Martinu and Rimsky-Korsakov.

Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Revels, and Struggles, in Jazz

At Carnegie Hall, a program of Stravinsky, Weill and freely improvised Gershwin highlighted a dialogue between jazz and classical music.

‘The Chevalier’ Review: A Music-Theater Portrait of Joseph Boulogne

“The Chevalier,” an intriguing music-theater hybrid, unwraps the still little-known life and work of this 18th-century composer.

Review: New York Philharmonic Welcomes Back an Old Friend

David Robertson returned to the podium to lead the orchestra’s first in a series of performances to celebrate the centennial of Gyorgy Ligeti’s birth.

‘Doppelganger’ Review: A Soldier Confronts His Mortality

At the Park Avenue Armory, an imaginative and viscerally shocking staging of Schubert songs from the director Claus Guth and the tenor Jonas Kaufmann.

Review: Thanks to Chick Corea, the Trombone Is a Philharmonic Star

The jazz composer wrote a new concerto for the New York Philharmonic’s principal trombonist, Joseph Alessi, but died before its U.S. premiere.