Franz Welser-Möst, the Cleveland Orchestra’s music director since 2002, is beginning to wind down his career.

These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds.

These two titans of 20th-century literature and music formed a profound, yearslong relationship across generations and backgrounds.

Sondheim was a titan of musical theater. But four recent shows onstage in New York argue for his place among classical music luminaries, too.

A revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” was notable for the arrival of Christian Gerhaher. But with an abrupt protest, the performance took a turn.

Begun to improve his own technique, piano exercises that Glass wrote over decades are the subject this month of a new book, a concert and…

“X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X,” from 1986, receives its grandest treatment yet, in a production expected to play on opera stages from…

On the eve of a sprawling new festival, John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gustavo Dudamel and others recount how the state reinvigorated classical music.

The conductor is taking a break after being accused of striking a singer. But the groups he founded continue to tour with a substitute at…

R.B. Schlather’s new staging of this opera, with the excellent musicians of Ruckus, is the first of several Handel productions at Hudson Hall.