Joana Mallwitz, one of Germany’s fastest rising stars, makes her Metropolitan Opera debut in “The Marriage of Figaro” on ...

The thunderous sounds we hear in a concert hall — summoned with the subtlest flick of a conductor’s wrist — are the result of ...

These two conductor perspectives indicate the complex processes involved in translating the notes composers write in their manuscripts to what we hear as music. Standing alone on the podium before ...

The news surrounding the San Francisco Symphony has been pretty bleak since Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen revealed last month his intention to leave as soon as his contract expires at the end of ...

The conductor typically stands on a raised podium with a large music stand for the full score, which contains the musical notation for all the instruments and/or voices. Since the mid-19th century, ...