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- Category: Inside the score
- A Symphony of Two: Robert and Clara Schumann
- Playing With History: How Historically Informed Performance Rewrote the Sound of Classical Music
- Bach’s Six Cello Suites
- From Stadium to Stage: The Shared Language of Music and Sport
- Listen Closer: Mozart’s Symphony No. 40
- Listening to the Seasons
- Tom, Jerry, and Rossini: Cartoons Meet Classical Music
- Musical Bloodsport: When Composer-Critics Pick Up the Pen
- New Year, New Music: Portraits of Classical Music’s Next Generation
- “But is it Classical?” Shining a Light on Rosalía’s LUX
- Florence Price: From the Attic to the Concert Hall
- 10 Things to Know About The Blue Danube
- Prima della Scala: Inside Italy’s Most Iconic Season Opening
- The Untold History of Handel’s Messiah
- The Finnish School: Why Finland Produces the World’s Leading Conductors
- From Hoffmann to Tchaikovsky: What Music Keeps, Transforms, Invents
- Listen Closer: Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique
- The Premiere of Dvořák’s New World Symphony
- Cracking The Nutcracker
- The Secret Lives of Christmas Carols
- Dmitri Shostakovich: Music Under Siege
- Can Architecture Shape a Performance?
- The Premiere of Strauss’s Salome
- The Gift of Music: The Hidden Intimacy of Classical Music’s Dedications
- Beethoven’s Deafness: Myth, Reality, and Perception
- Ludovico Einaudi: A Minimalist Voice with Monumental Impact
- Do the “Big Five” US Orchestras Still Reign Supreme?
- What to Listen to After The Lord of the Rings Soundtrack
- The Spookiest Melody of Them All: Dies Irae
- Opera’s Greatest Villains
- Notes from History: Don Giovanni Premieres
- Gould’s Goldberg Variations: The Legacy of a Legend
- How Kaija Saariaho Changed the Way We Hear Music
- Do Orchestras Still Sound Different?
- Ralph Vaughan Williams: Composer for the people
- Tracing the journey of Chopin in Paris: 5 iconic locations that marked the life (and death) of the great composer.
- A Pianist’s Guide to Chopin’s Forms: Nocturnes, Mazurkas, and Beyond
- From Menuhin to Yunchan Lim: How Legendary Performances Are Captured on Film
- A Grand Voice, A Bold Life: 10 Jessye Norman Highlights
- Listen Closer: Dvořák’s “Songs my mother taught me”
- Leonard Bernstein in 9 Unexpected Stories
- Listen Closer: Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
- How to Build an Orchestra in Five Weeks: Inside the Verbier Festival Method
- What stories make the best operas?
- Listen Closer: Stravinsky’s The Firebird
- It takes a mountain: The hidden machinery behind the Verbier Festival
- From Paris to DC: Two Very Different Ways to Fund Music
- Herbert von Karajan: Architect of sound and vision
- Decoding the classical voice: A guide to vocal classifications
- How to stage a controversy: Carl Nielsen’s Aladdin
- Notes from History: The premiere of Berg’s incomplete Lulu
- Listen Closer: Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2
- How can you turn as gruesome a tale as Hansel and Gretel into an opera?
- Notes from History: The opening of Carnegie Hall
- In good harmony: Mozart’s most famous operatic duets
- Ravel’s challenges and obsessions
- Maria Callas and her greatest rivals: Opera’s most legendary divas
- Listen Closer: Bizet’s Carmen
- What your favorite John Williams theme says about your classical music taste
- Concert capturers: Bringing classical music to life on screen from the Opéra Garnier to the Philharmonie de Paris
- Notes from History: Verdi’s Falstaff Premiere
- Notes from History: Brahms’s First Piano Concerto
- Category: Interviews
- Category: medici.tv picks
- Category: News
- Classical music at the Milano-Cortina Olympics, the Kennedy Center staff left scrambling, and more
- Audiences in London boo a Turandot sans “Nessun dorma,” Philip Glass cancels a world premiere at the Kennedy Center, and more
- Financial troubles at The Met, Roberto Alagna speaks out, behind the scenes with the Cleveland Orchestra and more
- Yo-Yo Ma plays for the whales, Riccardo Muti plays in prison, Zubin Mehta won’t play in Israel, and more
- Inside Vienna’s Konzerthaus: The Concert Hall That Shaped an Orchestra
- Semyon Bychkov set to lead the Paris Opera, the Washington National Opera set to leave the Kennedy Center, and more
- Semyon Bychkov Appointed Future Music Director of the Opéra national de Paris
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s jubilant New Year, Marina Viotti’s crossover career, and more
- Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s début, Jonas Kaufmann’s lament, influencers at The Met and more
- “Christmas Isn’t Only Carols”: Making space for the music we’ve been waiting to hear all year.
- The Trump Kennedy Center, Jane Austen the composer, Amadeus’s legacy, and more
- Riccardo Chailly hospitalized, Jubilant Sykes fatally stabbed, a major donation for the RAM, and more
- Frank Gehry’s classical legacy, how to make it snow in The Nutcracker, Carolin Widmann vs. Lufthansa airlines, and more
- Riccardo Muti celebrated by the Vatican, Hayato Sumino’s new Guinness World Record, the Edmonton Opera’s canceled production, and more…
- Forgotten Bach resurfaces, protestors at The Met’s “hypocritical” Carmen, a delightful new TikTok trend, and more
- Two Forgotten Bach Chaconnes Resurface After 300 Years
- The Unbreakable Line: Maya Plisetskaya at 100
- Arrests after Israel Philharmonic protest in Paris, a new ninth century discovery, Ralph Fiennes in The Choral, and more
- Maria João Pires retires, Rosalía rocks the classical world, a world premiere is canceled, and more
- When Pop Meets Opera: Rosalía’s New Single “Berghain” Electrifies Classical Audiences
- Misty Copeland’s star-studded retirement gala, Eric Lu’s big win at the Chopin Competition, Berio at 100 and more
- Hollywood star Sandra Oh joins The Met, Sir Simon Rattle makes Gramophone history, and more
- Chopin Competition Video Goes Viral: Tears and Raindrops
- Purcell’s brand-new song, cellists Yo-Yo Ma and Gautier Capuçon head outdoors, Misty Copeland’s retirement and more
- “A Voice You Could Recognize in Two Notes”: Remembering Luciano Pavarotti
- The backlash against Beatrice Venezi, Evgeny Kissin looks ahead to 2050, Garrick Ohlsson’s miraculous memory, and more
- Louise Alder calls out the lack of arts funding, Jordi Savall calls for action, Ilan Volkov was arrested at the border and more
- Dudamel’s favorite NYC hot dog, Sandra Oh at The Met, George Benjamin’s new seat at the Académie des Beaux Arts and more
- Shani and the Munich Phil were canceled in Belgium, California orchestras avoid strikes, Jane Austen’s playlist goes digital, and more
- “Less is More”: Arvo Pärt at 90
- The Met’s new Saudi partnership, Salonen’s new roles, Dudamel’s new stadium venue, and more
- Shchedrin dies at 92, Joshua Bell’s TED talk, Cecilia Bartoli on time, and more
- The Gift of Seeing Music Differently: Nupen, Monsaingeon, and Their Films
- Political backlash at the Royal Ballet and Opera, restoring atomic-bombed pianos in Japan, the Verbier Festival expands to China, and more
- The Met fell for a fake millionaire donor, Robert Wilson passed away, John Williams’ first piano concerto, and more
- Gergiev’s comeback canceled, a political curtain call at the ROH, footballer Michelle Agyemang’s traveling piano, and more
- “The Show Must Go On”: Backstage at the Verbier Festival
- The vast rep for left-hand piano, how to play Beethoven’s Ninth with your car, Khatia Buniatishvili performs upside down and more
- A long lost Stradivarius resurfaces, extreme temps at the Arena di Verona, La Scala bans shorts, and more
- “New” Satie, 100 years later; Jonathan Bailey, Hollywood actor and clarinet whiz; and more
- A tech CEO conducted the TSO, Schifrin passed away, Lang Lang heads to Saudi Arabia, and more
- Alfred Brendel passed away, Maria João Pires steps back, the first-ever Neurorecital and more
- Alfred Brendel, piano legend, has died
- Beyond the hall: Classical music under the stars
- Aristo Sham Wins Gold at the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
- A ballet legend leaves us, a mezzo wows 50,000 sports fans, and more
- What I’ve learned from a decade of music competitions
- A countertenor wins Eurovision, the surprising new music director of La Scala, the Bernstein family speak out, and more
- Higdon on “accessible music”, Kanneh-Mason on racism, the Opéra de Paris goes VR, and more
- The outrageous Barrie Kosky, a violin with an incredible origin story, and more
- Igor Levit’s endurance, a harpist’s drive to commission, Lang Lang’s new initiative, and more
- Why the Czech Philharmonic still stands apart
- Martha Argerich talked to the Times, John Nelson passed away, and more
- Wigmore Hall and Welser-Möst talk politics, a California violin thief is sentenced, and more
- A life with Ravel
- A Polar Prize for Hannigan, a US boycott for Schiff, a contract extension for Noseda and more
- Sofia Gubaidulina’s legacy, JD Vance’s rough night at the Kennedy Center, a $23 million Strad and more
- Bare-legged ballerinas, the 2025 “30 under 30”, artists taking political stands and more
- An AI-protest album, MTT winds down, and Lang Lang’s surprising duet partner
- A stink at the Staatsoper, a classical trailblazer’s Oscar bid, a pioneering principal in San Francisco and more
- Brand-new Ravel, fallout at the Kennedy Center, the joys of adult ballet learners and more
- Rafael Payare and the Orchestral Spark
- Barenboim discloses Parkinson’s, K-Pop meets classical, Anna Netrebko’s US comeback, and more
