Richard Strauss

The Dude is back! Other season highlights include: 'Bernstein: The Best of All Possible Worlds' This two-month festival in New York, jointly sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the New York Philharmonic, will open with an all-Bernstein program in Carnegie by...

For the third season, live broadcasts of Metropolitan Opera productions will be transmitted to two Hampton Roads movie theaters. This year, "The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD" series will be expanded from eight to 11 high-definition transmissions....

If the Three Stooges stumbled into an oh-so-serious performance of Hamlet and carried on as usual alongside the uncomprehending actors, the result would be something akin to Ariadne auf Naxos, the musically and theatrically brilliant work by Richard...

Try some soothing classical music or jazz music ... MOSTLY MOZART FESTIVAL WHAT Orchestra featuring Louis Langrée as conductor and Sally Matthews as one of the sopranos, doing Richard Strauss' "Metamorphosen" for 23 strings and Mozart's Mass in C...

On the July morning I visited Elliott Carter, he was staying in a red cottage in the quaint village of Stockbridge, Mass., in the Berkshires. Five miles up the road is Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony, which was in the midst of hosting a 10-...

ON THE morning I visited Elliott Carter last month, he was staying in a red cottage in this quaint village in the Berkshires. Five miles up the road is Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony, which was in the midst of hosting a 10-concert, 47-work...

Please submit listings by going online to metromix.com/listings. CRITICS' PICKS Accessible Contemporary Music: In work by Stephane Delplace.—John von Rhein. 3 p.m. Sun. (open rehearsal); free. Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St.;312-...

Guidebooks "DK Eyewitness Travel: Brazil," DK, $30; ISBN: 978-0-7566-2820-8 Brazil is larger than the continental United States and is home to diverse landscapes, although, of course, it is the Amazon rain forest that is its most distinguishing...

Joyce DiDonato has come a long, long way from that fateful moment in 1997 when a judge at a song competition in London told her, point blank, that she had "nothing to offer as an artist." These days it would be easy for the gifted and accomplished mezzo-...

Barely four months into his post at Lyric Opera of Chicago, Donald Nally has mapped out his long-term strategy as director of the Lyric Opera Chorus. He wants one of the finest opera choruses in the nation to become known as one of the finest opera...

On Aug. 9, 1942, during the 900-day siege of Leningrad, a bedraggled orchestra inside the city played Dmitri Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, subtitled "Leningrad." The Soviet composer had set to work on this massive symphony the previous summer, just...

What a difference a song makes. And what a difference a movie can make for a song. Take "Singin' in the Rain." It has been ukulele ditty (Cliff Edwards in the 1920s), comedy (Jimmy Durante in the 1930s), swing (Judy Garland in the 1940s), ode to joy...