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

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 ...

The musicians of the National Symphony Orchestra ratified a new four-year contract Friday that will help preserve the present roster and solidify the NSO’s future past the imminent closing of the ...

Opera Philadelphia opened its 2026-27 season Wednesday evening with the local premiere of Mozart’s youthful Mitridate, re di Ponto, presented at the Academy of Music. The titular king of Pontus, ...

The National Symphony Orchestra finally announced plans for its 96th season Tuesday morning. The NSO will not perform at its traditional Kennedy Center home but instead will bring around sixty ...

The National Symphony Orchestra remains in crisis. Ticket sales and donations have plummeted, due to the grotesque politicization of the Kennedy Center by President Trump. Fallout from the disputed ...

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 ...

On Friday night, the National Symphony Orchestra played its final concert of the season, and perhaps its last for a long while at its home, the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Guest conductor Karen ...

Jacques Loussier would likely have been tickled to see his Concerto No. 2 for Violin and Tabla alongside works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on Wednesday evening’s National ...

Washington Concert Opera first came on the scene in 1987, with a maiden performance of The Pearl Fishers. After a revival in 2000, the company returned to Bizet’s gangly yet lovable opera Saturday ...

Baltimore-based composer Jonathan Leshnoff received a commission for his Flute Concerto no. 2 from his longtime friend Dr. David J. Brown, with the request that Leshnoff capture the African-American ...