I’m not sure it’s really possible to decide on one “greatest disc from the last three decades,” but it’s an interesting concept. The Beaux Arts Trio, which is disbanding after decades together, might be a sentimental favorite for the award…

The Metropolitan Opera’s live high-definition broadcasts will return for a third season, starting with the Met’s opening night gala on Mon., Sept. 22.

The number of broadcasts is larger than last season. So is the number of local venues; The…

Mark Lundberg, who competed in the Met auditions, successively, as a bass, baritone, and tenor, has died after a brief illness at the age of 50. He leaves a wife, Anya, and four children, ages 6 to 18.

Mark’s father…

With James Levine out for the summer (unlike Mark Mulder, there is hope that he’ll return in six weeks’ time in top form) due to surgery, various substitutes are being called in.

The first one in is former St. Louis…

When I was a girl in the Kansas City suburb of Prairie Village, Kansas, we studied state history while tiptoeing lightly around two of the most interesting characters: Carrie Nation and John Brown.

Nation, who took her tomahawk into saloons…

No, tenor Juan Diego Florez didn’t do an encore to “Ah, mes amis,” despite a long and lusty accolade from the beyond-appreciative crowd. But he did just about everything else in a manner calculated to please the far-flung audiences of…

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Is there too much high-def opera available in movie houses now? Well, not as far as the Met’s concerned, at any rate: Next year’s season will expand the number of transmissions (to 11, up from eight), the number of…

The Wagnerites turned out in force at the Art Museum on Saturday for “Tristan und Isolde,” live from the Met in HD broadcast. It starred soprano Deborah Voigt and tenor Robert Dean Smith – her fourth Tristan in as many…

The next wave of high-definition opera broadcasts hits cinemas this month, with four prerecorded productions from the San Francisco Opera arriving on several Wehrenburg screens here in March and April, and Metropolitan Opera stepping up its live presence at its…

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra got a cold weekend to visit New York, but their playing warmed things up at Carnegie Hall.

After Friday night’s performance of Messiaen’s “Turangalila-Symphonie,” the players practically glowed. In the lobby of the Parker Meridien,…