Metropolitan Opera Orchestra musicians perform classical music for Upper West Side voters outside the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in New York. In April, ...

Gustavo Dudamel, left, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Kristy Edmunds. (Photo illustration by Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times; Getty Images; Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times ...

In September, Houston Grand Opera staged a very different opening night: a two-person recital co-starring soprano Tamara Wilson and pianist Patrick Summers. With no live audience, the performance was ...

The year 2020 was, in so many ways, divided. In terms of live performances, musicians were forced to reinvent, reflect and respond from a distance and in turn I watched their concerts from the remove ...

2020 began with orchestral and vocal concerts, recitals and ballet. Then came March and the world stopped — but the music didn't. Ensembles and individuals innovated new ways to deliver performances ...

Last month, architect Frank Gehry and Los Angeles Philharmonic CEO Chad Smith gave me a masked hard-hat tour of the nearly finished Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center at Inglewood. Gehry’s ...

This was the grimly honest way mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges described to me what happened this year — to her fast-rising career, and to all of classical music after the coronavirus pandemic forced the ...

Twenty-twenty was the year that was, however much for classical music it may have seemed the year that wasn’t. Live performance, as we knew it, came to a sudden halt early March. Admirable local ...

Read about the New York Times critics’ favorites from a year in which much of the energy in music came from recordings. Composer Thomas Ades and pianist Kirill Gerstein’s artistically fruitful ...