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…

Today’s Wall Street Journal has a page-one feature on an endangered species: the prompter. Prompters help to save singers’ musical lives, by being on the spot with musical cues and words where needed. But opera houses are using fewer 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,…

Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced that Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez has had to cancel all his performances in the company’s production of Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia: the company announced on Thursday that he has a serious throat…

I visited Chicago to see John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” at Lyric Opera of Chicago — but while there, I got a welcome chance to catch “La Traviata” as well.

“Traviata” is one of the most frequently performed operas in the…

STLtoday.com has new blog software, and it should make the site easier to use for Post-Dispatch bloggers — once we figure out all of its fine points, at least. (I ask readers of Classical Music/Culture to bear with me during…