The evening was dedicated – on the 10th anniversary of this death – to Claudio Abbado’s contribution to Santa Cecilia over 26 seasons of the fifty he was active, though none of his performances here ...

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The air in the concert hall thickens before the first hammer-blow of the bass drum. It is a weight that cannot be replicated by a compressed audio file or ...

Pappano has been Music Director of the Royal Opera for 16 glorious years out of the 50 since the granting of the Royal Charter to what was then the Covent Garden Opera Company. In a typically ...

For a time, Chicago Symphony music director emeritus Riccardo Muti planned to end the 2024/25 downtown season with Hector Berlioz’s “The Damnation of Faust,” not heard at Orchestra Hall since 2008.

A sweeping masterwork of spiritual and dramatic power, Verdi’s Requiem features an extraordinary quartet of vocalists: Jamie Barton, Limmie Pulliam, Kenneth Kellogg, and Lauren Margison.

When Eugene Jones founded the Berkeley Community Chorus & Orchestra in 1966, he may never have imagined the chorus continuing for 60 years. Jones, who died in 2003, was the first African American ...