Jazz and Opera Come Together in ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’

Two critics discuss Terence Blanchard’s “Fire,” the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer.

Carnegie Hall Counts Down to Its Reopening

“The biggest variables — box office sales and venue rentals — are moving in a good direction,” says the director of the hall, which opens its season Oct. 6.

The Philharmonic Is Out of Its Hall This Year. It Doesn’t Pack Light.

With David Geffen Hall under renovation, the orchestra — and eight of its cellos, six double basses, six timpani and two grand pianos — must move from hall to hall.

The Score of Final Fantasy Gets Its Due at the Concert Hall

The beloved music for this video game and others have been covered on YouTube for years. Now some are performed at classical music’s grandest venues.

5 Things to Do This Weekend

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City.

A Cabaret Star and an Opera Star Walk Onto a Stage …

The punchline is “Only an Octave Apart,” featuring the unlikely collaborators Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo at St. Ann’s Warehouse.

At 75, the Ojai Music Festival Stays Focused on the Future

This storied California haven of contemporary classical music returned, organized by the composer John Adams.

A Giant Violin Floats Down Venice’s Grand Canal

This 39-foot-long instrument, built by local artisans and carrying musicians performing a live concert, sets a course for the future.

The Sunday Read: ‘The Composer at the Frontier of Movie Music’

Nicholas Britell’s scores — for “Succession,” “Moonlight” and “The Underground Railroad,” among others — suggest whole new ways of writing for film and television.

There Are Three Versions of Bruckner’s Fourth. Why Choose?

Jakub Hrusa and the Bamberg Symphony have released a new recording of them all.

Fake Rock Nearly Crushes Opera Star: Accident or Sabotage?

Feuding stagehands, falling props: It might sound like the plot of an opera, but in France it has been the subject of a court case.

Review: In ‘Sun & Sea,’ We Laze Away the End of the World

Seemingly sweet yet insistently ominous, this opera installation turns a sandy beach into a spectacle of a changing climate.

Jaap van Zweden to Step Down as New York Philharmonic’s Maestro

Citing a reassessment of his priorities during the pandemic, the conductor will leave his post after the 2023-24 season.