Performing Arts

In the past 12 years since Shen Yun Performing Arts was established, I have seen numerous performances and listened to hundreds of audience interviews. Words like “perfection,” “divine,” and “beautiful” ...

NEW YORK—Are people shaped innately or are their outlooks on life shaped by their experiences, beginning from the ...

NEW YORK—Both surreal and sometimes cartoon-like, Hansol Jung's new play, co-produced by New York's Public Theater and La ...

This beautifully imaginative album “Auf Flügeln des Gesanges: Romantic songs and piano transcriptions,” on Challenge Records, alternates between a song ...

With the holiday season in full swing, performing arts traditions abound in the city. This Christmas, the New ...

NEW YORK—At the onset of Christmas 1914, an amazing thing happened on the Western Front of World War ...

PARIS—"Do I believe in fate? I do. I think you can take advantage of fate with hard work; ...

NEW YORK—Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" is a Christmas nativity story. It is a one-act ...

LONDON—Ballet is a curious art form. Where else would we accept as standard a work by a number ...

NEW YORK—Placido Domingo's eyes watered and his voice quavered. After portraying dozens of characters over a half-century on ...

NEW YORK—Mike Birbiglia wants to talk to you about his couch. Well, not only about that. Although how this ...

NEW YORK—A monster has arrived on The Great White Way in the form of the title character in ...

The centenary of the Armistice has inevitably called forth musical responses, and the centenary of Hubert Parry's death ...

I caught the Latvian soprano Marina Rebeka as Marguerite in Gounod's “Faust” in Riga in 2017,  and she was Vitellia in the ...

MIDDLETOWN, N.Y.—At the beginning of each dance class, the students bow to their teachers. At the end of ...

“Into the Fire” (on Erato) is a live recording of a memorable concert of art songs at London’s ...

MOUNT HOPE, New York—Classical Chinese dance allows artists to portray a vast array of characters, and a master ...

There are two different paths for the leading ladies of “Anna Karenina.” On one, we find the main ...

The best of new albums recently released by classical singers is Thomas Hampson’s “Songs from Chicago,” on Cedille ...

Last year, bass-baritone Bryn Terfel had to cancel a number of performances for health reasons. The good news ...

For most, the brilliant composer Sergei Rachmaninoff brings to mind powerful piano works and an iconic, unequivocally Russian sound. ...

Soprano Renée Fleming recently made a successful transition to Broadway, receiving a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actress ...

NEW YORK—As a 2-year-old, musician Michael Thurber vividly remembers hearing three songs while his mother practiced a new ...

NEW YORK—There are many things passed from one generation to the next, though when prejudice and hatred are ...

NEW YORK—"Ordinary Days," fittingly classified as a chamber musical, with music and lyrics by Adam Gwon, was first ...

Birgit Nilsson and the Royal Swedish Opera have flourished in tandem. Following her debut in 1946 and her ...

NEW YORK—"The Winning Side," a thought-provoking new play by James Wallert discusses major aspects of the life of ...