Artist Articles

Between Opera and Symphony: Antonio Pappano’s Dual Musical Life He calls himself a theater man. Yet Antonio Pappano has spent the better

Why Contemporary Opera Still Matters Opera is not a museum. It has never been one. But keeping it alive requires courage—from composers,

How In War and Peace Turned a Recital into a Social Reflection The world was reeling. Paris was in mourning. And out

Four years. Four epic music dramas. One extraordinary orchestra transformed by the weight of the world’s most demanding compositional achievement. On January

The seats emptied slowly. Then all at once. And in that silence, opera discovered something it had never expected to find. For

When Every Stage Looks the Same Land in Miami. Land in Bahrain. The terminal looks the same. Sir David Pountney fears opera

Fifty years at the heart of an art form. A voice still restless with ideas. And a company from a small Welsh

Jaap van Zweden has a phrase he returns to often. Art, he says, is “food for the soul.” Strip it away, and

Four years. Four operas. One orchestra, fundamentally changed. The Hong Kong Philharmonic’s Ring Cycle journey—culminating with Götterdämmerung on January 18th at the