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When Vienna’s Opera Tradition Got Too Traditional, They Stepped In

Bogdan Roscic and Lotte de Beer are shaking the dust off Vienna’s two biggest repertory companies.

Zack Winokur Leads an Arts Reboot at Little Island

Zack Winokur, an ambitious dancer-turned-director, now has a New York stage to call his own as the park’s artistic leader.

Stockhausen’s Adventures in Space and Time at the Armory

It is nearly impossible to stage Stockhausen’s seven-opera cycle “Licht.” But “Inside Light” brings a portion of it to the Park Avenue Armory.

The End of a Maestro’s Era Approaches at the Philharmonic

Jaap van Zweden returned to the New York Philharmonic to lead some of his final programs as the orchestra’s music director.

Review: Robert Ashley’s ‘Foreign Experiences’ Returns

Robert Ashley’s 1994 opera “Foreign Experiences,” a portrait of a paranoid mind in free fall, is part of a wave of revivals following his death.

Review: Asmik Grigorian’s Met Opera Debut in ‘Butterfly’

Asmik Grigorian, a star singer abroad, made her Metropolitan Opera debut by lending lyricism, complexity and spontaneity to a classic role.

Lileana Blain-Cruz Directs ‘El Niño’ For Her Met Opera Debut

In an interview, Blain-Cruz explained why an oratorio like John Adams and Peter Sellars’s “El Niño” is more difficult to stage than the usual opera.

Review: Thomas Adès Meets the Profound Beauty of Schubert

The Danish String Quartet returned to Carnegie Hall with its Doppelgänger project, pairing Schubert’s String Quintet and a premiere by Adès.

Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music

The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”

Nadia Boulanger, Music’s Greatest Teacher, Wrote an Opera

Nadia Boulanger’s “La Ville Morte” was repeatedly thwarted by death and World War I, then nearly lost. Finally, it is having its American premiere.