Long considered unpopular by the French, musicals have flourished recently in the capital. But is this just a mere trend to ...

Twenty years ago, the curator and art historian RoseLee Goldberg began to think about what it might mean to “frame” a work of performance art. She had moved from London in 1975 to a loft on Mercer ...

Based on a rarely performed Schoenberg opera from 1929, From Today Until Tomorrow explores one night in a marriage. A husband and wife return from a party where she has flirted with another man while ...

The theatrical world premiere of the late composer Arnold Schoenberg’s opera “Moses and Aron” was performed here as high point of the “World Music Festival” sponsored by the International Society for ...

There is a small and intriguingly personal sub-genre of operas about composers. Something is always up when one composer deals with another composer’s life and music. Subjects have included Carlo ...

The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...

This post was updated May 18 at 8:47 p.m. A Hollywood story is being told in a new way with an opera’s West Coast premiere. A production of composer Tod Machover’s piece “Schoenberg in Hollywood” will ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The opera house in Vilnius is hard to miss — a colossal concrete monolith in a fairytale town. The theatre ...

The composer and critic Virgil Thomson once defined American music as music written by Americans. There is no arguing with that. Less obvious, however, is figuring out what, if anything, describes L.A ...

At the Nimoy Theater, the composer’s story returns to the place where it originally unfolded. Photo: Liza Voll In 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor and the Nazis revoked Schoenberg’s ...

The French composer and conductor despised the staid and conservative and desired no less than a classical music revolution. He irrevocably shaped Europe's music and culture scene throughout the 20th ...