David Patrick Stearns

Maybe they aren't so different from you and me...

Is streaming a brave new world for classical music?

How classical musicians and listeners alike are adjusting to the world during COVID-19. 

Notable performances in and out of town this month.

There's a lot happening around New York in March. From Beethoven to the complete string quartets of John Zorn, here's what to see.

The global Beethoven avalanche is underway, and there’s never been anything quite like it. 

Good concerts are a necessity in these dark days of winter, and clusters of earnest new works happen at times of the year when there’s less competition from elsewhere.

This year, great music appeared in an infinite variety of packages and sizes — and in all five boroughs.

Christmas ain’t easy in the upper echelons of classical music.

Realizing that Glass has figuratively framed a river opens one door of understanding. But did anybody anticipate that the river would run so far, and in so many places?

The best of New York shows, from a 10-minute street opera to Verdi's Requiem.

Just because Domingo is gone from the Metropolitan Opera following the cancellation of his Macbeth appearance on Sept. 24 doesn’t mean that he’s gone from the industry.

From Beethoven's anniversary year to a Met Opera sans Plácido Domingo.

All the shows to kick off autumn.

It's time for events like the Korngold festival, the Mostly Mozart finale, and the Met's free, no-tickets-required Summer HD Festival in Lincoln Square Plaza.

One of the more adventurous programmers in the business talks to David Patrick Stearns about Lincoln Center's annual Mozart extravaganza. 

Notable performances in and out of town this month.

Investigating the choice of opera as the medium to dramatize the emotions of the 1969 uprising. 

This summer, artists commemorate the anniversary of the 1969 riots.

The concerts and operas that left their mark in 2019 (so far)