Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Robert Levin has long argued that Mozart would have made up new material while performing, and he follows the master in a series of ...

VIENNA, AUSTRIA — Mozart is still generating hits: millions of them, in fact. A jubilee year of celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of the composer’s birth ended Friday with a flourish: As a ...

Nathan Berry got his first piano as a toy his mother bought at a yard sale. In the past nine years, he has continued playing on three increasingly costly pianos. His parents now have two of them in ...

Musical prodigies – and, often, their eye-watering daily routines, carefully managed by their guardians – have fascinated audiences for centuries. But while tweens can often have extraordinary ...

Most musicians think of “Don Giovanni” as one of the masterpieces of classical music. The first scene of the opera sets the tone for the whole piece. Is it a comic opera, or is it a tragedy? From the ...