It's a love that has only recently developed after years of performing 'standard' repertoire. "I discovered the universe of Glass, Reich, and Adams a long time ago," Wagner tells Apple Music, "but I ...

Miami Beach Classical Music Festival (MMF) has been offering free public concerts each summer since 2013. This year, Michael Rossi, founder and artistic director, promises there will be even more to ...

So many decent recordings of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.1 have appeared in recent years, and here’s another. James Ehnes was given superb support from Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth ...

The Swedish soprano spoke to us ahead of her Royal Opera House performances as Brünnhilde in Barrie Kosky’s new staging of Wagner’s Siegfried Swedish soprano Elisabet Strid has become one of the most ...

Apple acquired Primephonic—a renowned classical music service—in 2021. For the unaware, Primephonic was a classical music streaming service aimed at addressing the needs of the fans of the classical ...

For years, classical music fans have been left behind in the streaming revolution. Finding particular works and recordings has been hit or miss on the major platforms, which were basically built to ...

Next year, a full opera cycle will be performed year-round at world-famous opera houses. It is the four-part opera *The Ring of the Nibelung* by German composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883), which marks ...

Seattle Opera This quadrennial production of Wagner’s Ring is, all told, SO’s best yet—more vivid, more gripping, more moving. McCaw Hall, Seattle Center, 389-7676, seattleopera.org. $300–$1,460 per ...

Sir John Tomlinson, whose thoughts specifically about the Prom Parsifal in which he sang the role of Gurnemanz follow below, says it all about clutter versus simplicity: “people talk about directors ...

We're surprised they didn't go with Wagner's 'Ring Cycle'... In a one-of-a-kind event, the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra ...