Performances can transform musical anniversaries from historical facts to the vibrant experiences that reminds us why the occasion is worth celebrating. The Pittsburgh Symphony’s tributes to Ludwig ...

Fidelio Angela Denoke, Jon Villars, Alan Held, Laszlo Polgar, Juliane Banse, Rainer Trost, Thomas Quasthoff; Arnold Schoenberg Choir; Berlin Philharmonic; Simon Rattle, conductor; EMI Classics (two ...

Skylight Music Theatre's new Artistic Director Viswa Subbaraman will open his first season at Skylight with an innovative, 21st century production of Ludwig van Beethoven's 19th century masterpiece, ...

A group of singers wearing yellow jumpsuits stomp and sing on a platform above an orchestra. They pound their fists as they stand behind a chain-link barbed-wire fence; they are prisoners. Their ...

Made up of solo performers, professors from European music schools and members of other orchestras, including the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, this ad hoc group has built an impressive reputation. Abbado ...

The UK rapper fakemink is has been a swift phenomenon in an ever-growing wave of swift phenomena. Already, his music has soundtracked a fashion show for Alexander McQueen, and he was a special guest ...

I caught up with Raffaello Morales, conductor and founder of Fidelio Cafe and founder and music director of Fidelio Orchestra, a London-based ensemble which brings together students, professionals and ...

In Calixto Bieito's radical reworking of Fidelio, most of the features that traditionally define the work are challenged or subverted, in a way that certainly provokes a reaction (as intended) even as ...

“Of all my children,” said the dying Beethoven, “this is the one that has cost me the worst birth pangs.” The “child” was Fidelio, Beethoven’s only opera and one of his least successful works in his ...