Soprano Kathleen Battle and her wondrous accompanist, Martin Katz, are a double guarantee of a fine concert. Their appearance Monday at Ravinia’s Martin Theater added at least two more guarantees, ...

Benita Valente, 91, a revered lyric soprano whose voice thrilled listeners with its purity and seeming effortlessness, died ...

Schubert and Schumann songs (Elly Ameling, soprano; Joerg Demus, fortepiano and piano; Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Editio Classica/BMG Classics). Schumann: Dichterliebe ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Franz Schubert’s “Winterreise” (“Winter Journey”) is almost relentlessly ...

-- When Franz Schubert played and sang for his friends what would be one of his last works, "Winterreise" (Winter Journey), they were "dumbfounded" by the song cycle's emotional bleakness. But the ...

Departing the Ordway Concert Hall Tuesday afternoon after a lovely recital by Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter, I passed a sign outside the neighboring Xcel Center touting a Bruce ...

Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout will open the newly announced 2022-23 Schubert Club International Artist Series with performances Aug. 1 and 3 at the ...

If you’re a Twin Cities classical music lover who didn’t attend Wednesday evening’s recital by South African soprano and budding international opera star Golda Schultz, I’m sure you had your reasons.

I don’t know for certain, but I’d guess that in popular music there are more songs about summer than about any other season. (After all, that’s when we’re told that people fall in love, look their ...

The first was a composer, the second a playwright. One was Austrian, the other an itinerant Paris-dwelling Irishman. And their lives never quite overlapped: The first died a year after Beethoven ...