The title is misleading. Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen is not a fluffy animal story. It is, like so much of the composer’s work, about the cycle of life: love, loss, yearning and the ...

Simon Rattle marshals an impressive Rite of Spring, while soprano Barbara Hannigan dons school uniform for Ligeti’s Mysteries of the Macabre, writes Andrew Clements ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Simon Rattle is possibly the most interesting conductor before the public today.

Simon Rattle with the Berlin Philharmonic in 2004 - United Archives GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo Simon Rattle is perhaps Britain’s greatest living conductor. He achieved eminence at an age when many in ...

Matthew Rose delivers a dream Winterreise at Pizza Express. Plus, happy hour with Simon Rattle and the LSO, and the NYO in outer space ...

As Adès premieres an orchestral work, “The Exterminating Angel” is receiving something rare in contemporary opera: a new production. By Joshua Barone Not everything was an artistic or audience success ...

It’s been eight years since the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra made its last visit to Washington, under the baton of Mariss Jansons. But they must have made quite an impression; I’ve never heard so ...

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One of the reasons, if a lesser one, that Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps ("The Rite of Spring") created a scandal at its Paris premiere on May 29, 1913 –more than a century ago now– was that, ...

Germany has many orchestras, just as it should, given the history of music. The No. 1 orchestra in Germany, undoubtedly, is the Berlin Philharmonic. What is No. 2? I will not hazard to rank (beyond ...

Conductor Simon RattleFrom a new recording by conductor Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony, among other orchestras, "Short Ride in a Fast Machine," by John Adams. Rattle's newest ...