The Classical Review was founded in March 2010 by music critic Lawrence A. Johnson to establish a single, one-stop online source for classical music coverage.

More than halfway through Monday’s press conference announcing the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s 2014-15 season, Riccardo Muti playfully revealed that he had just signed a contract extension to ...

Klaus Mäkelä was announced as the future music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra this week, effective in 2027. Yet the Finnish conductor remains something of an enigma to local audiences, ...

Anna Clyne's "Night Ferry" was given its world premiere by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Thursday night.

The National Symphony Orchestra’s concerts this past week, led by Teddy Abrams, featured music composed in homage to the natural world, as well as music lamenting the damage done to it by human ...

Wolf Trap Opera Company is closing out the summer season with its first performance of an American classic, Carlisle Floyd’s Susannah. The distinguished American composer, who died last September, ...

Simon: The Block; Tales: A Folklore Symphony; Songs of Separation; Wake Up! National Symphony Orchestra; Gianandrea Noseda, conductor (NSO). A new recording from the National Symphony Orchestra, ...

On Wednesday Lyric’s board of directors voted to extend Anthony Freud’s contract as general director for another five years through the 2020-2021 season.

The Miami-based Chopin Foundation of the United States has raised its top cash prize to $100,000 for 2020, making it the highest piano competition award in the country.

Ekaterina Gubanova as Venus and Andreas Schager in the title role of Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Metropolitan Opera. Photo: Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera Climate protesters struck the Metropolitan Opera ...

On the face of it, pairing classical superstars Renée Fleming and Evgeny Kissin in a duo recital had the makings of an artistic mismatch. After all, the American operatic and concert diva and the ...

The garden scene occupies a special place in opera buffa. Set most often at night and towards the end of the drama, it offers a charmed moment, a collective holding of breath, before the imbroglio is ...