In a very interesting double bill, Greek National Opera (GNO) put together Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide and its followup, Iphigénie en Tauride, which is set 20 years after the first opera. The first opera, which received its premiere on 19

Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, was a most unfortunate character in stories of the Trojan War. Granted the power of prophecy by the god Apollo if she would sleep with him, he tainted the

Verdi’s Rigoletto has had countless outings at New York’s Metropolitan Opera since 1883. But to make it worthwhile, the house needs access to a baritone who can handle the tricky part vocally, fill the cavernous theatre, but also can imbue

The Yellow Label just released a disk featuring Daniil Trifonov, surely one of the most astounding pianists of our age. Titled “My American Story-North”, Trifonov, a pianist of jaw-dropping technique and outer-wordly interpretive skills, takes us on a highly personal

Resonating Earth, the new album from American pianist Carolyn Enger, was created in response to the climate crisis and emerged from her deep connection to nature and her dedication to environmental activism. Enger lives in a wooden house outside Manhattan,

Partners at the piano and in life, Samson Tsoy and Pavel Kolesnikov met in 2007 as students at the Moscow State Conservatory, where they chose piano duo as part of their chamber music assessments. They moved to London in 2011,

There’s a good reason why Gioachino Rossini’s Bianca e Falliero is rarely performed. It is long, dramatically weak, and the music can be repetitive – some of the most interesting parts are actually borrowed from the composer’s La Donna del

This interesting new release from British pianist Duncan Honeybourne, with British-American violinist Leora Cohen, introduces the hitherto little-known music of Jessy Reason, known somewhat cryptically during her lifetime as “J. L. Reason”. A long-forgotten, enigmatic figure, Jessy Lilian Reason, née