The orchestra’s final program of the season featured the New York premiere of John Luther Adams’s “Become Desert.”

She brought new colors to modernist music, sometimes using electronics, and became the first female living composer to have two operas staged by the Met.

Not yet 30, Guggeis already leads a major opera house and has conducted the “Ring” in Berlin. Next up: his arrival at the Metropolitan Opera.

Pavel Kolesnikov took on a test of pianism, the “Goldberg” Variations, and assembled a conceptual program inspired by Joseph Cornell.

Nicholas Britell’s score for the HBO series, which concludes on Sunday, has developed, episode by episode, into a classic theme-and-variations work.

Smith, a rising young composer, has adapted her work “Lost Coast” into a cello concerto premiering this week at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The premiere of Dylan Mattingly and Thomas Bartscherer’s six-hour opera was presented by the orchestra — an institution at an inflection point.

She is marking her 24-year effort to expand the instrument’s repertoire with performances, including a Carnegie Hall series, as well as a box set and...

The conductor Susanna Mälkki brought her orchestra to New York in something of a farewell to her tenure in Finland.

Giddens said that the success of their opera “Omar” proves that “nobody has the lock on being a composer.”