He seems to know everything there is to know about playing the sax — his breath control, tone, and fingering were all ...

President Donald Trump’s controversial takeover of the Kennedy Center has roiled the performing arts community, in Washington and beyond. KC patrons, including many who have spoken to Washington ...

Typically, when one thinks about the great love stories portrayed on opera stages, in the forefront are the works of Mozart, Puccini or Donizetti. Carl Maria von Weber is probably not at the top of ...

Wolf Trap Opera opened its production of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin Friday night with a gorgeous and moving performance. The skillful young artists brought Tchaikovsky’s characters and score to life ...

Unfortunately, for Ben Bliss’s return to Vocal Arts DC on Sunday evening, what may have seemed like a promising idea on paper turned out to be a series of mostly embarrassing whiffs.  The American ...

Giacomo Puccini died in 1924 before completing his final opera, Turandot, and people have been trying to figure out how to finish it ever since. Modern audiences have gotten accustomed to the ...

Klaus Mäkelä will become chief conductor of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the start of the 2027-2028 season. (At the same time he will begin his tenure as music director of the Chicago Symphony ...

The departure of Washington National Opera caused another turbulent week at the Kennedy Center. Nevertheless, a full house greeted the return of Daniil Trifonov to the Concert Hall stage Thursday ...

No one on the public relations team at the Kennedy Center or representing the National Symphony Orchestra or the Fortas Chamber Music Concerts series was able to be reached for comment. The ...

Four years is a long time. The coronavirus pandemic canceled the National Symphony Orchestra’s originally scheduled world premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Her Story back in 2021. After the work made the ...

The National Symphony Orchestra offered a survey of music from American movies Thursday night, part of the Kennedy Center’s Notes & Frames film music festival. James Gaffigan, general music director ...