The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra was tuned up and ready to go Saturday at the Music Center at Strathmore, but the hall had to wait during a suspenseful minute for the evening’s guest conductor and two ...

Authorial intent, while considered important in some art forms, is difficult to maintain in traditional opera. Whereas a director may think twice before chopping away at the work of a living ...

The National Symphony Orchestra offers a winning program this week with the debut of a talented guest conductor, a world-class pianist in a sizzling rendition of the Prokofiev Concerto No. 3 and a ...

Covid-19 restrictions may be a thing of the past, but the pandemic still cast a shadow over the Hong Kong Philharmonic’s April 21-22 performances of Brahms’ majestic A German Requiem. The performances ...

The orchestra had been looking for a new candidate for a good while and the search for a successor to Cornelius Meister, who is leaving after this season, cannot have been easy. (Hence the interim ...

Wow. That sure was fun. Thursday night’s Baltimore Symphony concert at Meyerhoff Hall introduced the audience to Cornelius Mesiter, a barely-into-his-30s conductor from Germany. I hope he comes back ...

At a young age, the internationally renowned German conductor and pianist Cornelius Meister took the classical music world by storm. After performing in all the main opera houses and symphony halls ...

Baritone Peter Mattei and bass-baritone Luca Pisaroni star as opera’s most notorious seducer in Mozart’s masterpiece of dark comedy. Cornelius Meister makes his Met debut conducting performances that ...

Two outstanding casts—including sopranos Nadine Sierra, Anita Hartig, Susanna Phillips, and Hanna-Elisabeth Müller; mezzo-sopranos Gaëlle Arquez and Marianne Crebassa; baritone Mariusz Kwiecien; and ...