Lise Davidsen’s recital at the Met Opera, Gustavo Dudamel leading “Romeo and Juliet,” and a violinist’s personal program are among our selections.

Theatre academic Peter Brooks championed the rise of melodrama as a popular form replacing tragedy. Melodrama, he said, tends to be explicit and hyperbolic in its representation of emotional and moral ...

Conductor Juraj Valčuha ably coordinated and balanced the orchestra and the singers, while drawing out the dramatic effects from Wagner's detail-laden score.

Turning the Page Radio 3/BBC Sounds, 1pm Violinist Tasmin Little’s elegiac series, looking at how, when and why classical ...

The Poway Symphony Orchestra will present its ‘Mendelssohn Classics’ concert on Sunday. The guest soloist will be violinist YuEun Gemma Kim.

Performances in N.Y.C. Is there anyone John Lithgow can’t — or won’t — play? Is there anyone John Lithgow can’t — or won’t — ...

From Mendelssohn’s scherzo in A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Grieg’s Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, music composed for the theatre was never just ‘incidental’ ...

Details: Talk runs 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. March 7; 1736 Franklin St., Oakland; admission begins at $27; details are at baybookfest ...

Women’s History Month gets off to great start this year with a wide variety of plays, concerts and musicals starring women. Two strong modern singer/songwriters, Mothica and Diamante, are both on the ...

Positioning classicality versus contemporaneity, the Spanish musician’s latest EP ‘Aporiamor’ careens from cerebral balladry to buzzing electronica ...

From the moment you step into the auditorium, you are gently immersed in Morse’s world, the sound of classical music drifting through the space, an immediate nod to the detective’s well-known tastes.

Inside: The Coral Bone Project at UH Mānoa, Apollo5 at St. Andrews, The Lion in Winter in Hilo, waʻa in Kāneʻohe, Opera Aloha ...